History Main / AppealToNovelty

* The album ''Music/PacmanFever'' was released on this principle. After Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" single became a hit, they signed a record deal with Columbia/CBS Records, who insisted on a full album of video-game songs.

Also see NewAndImproved and SeinfeldIsUnfunny.

** The original version was not a fallacy, however, but instead was expressing exasperation that racism and sexism still exist in the 21st century despite the justifications for both prejudices being completely disproven decades ago, in the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement of the [=1960s=] and women’s lib in the [=1970s=], respectively.

* The album ''Music/PacmanFever'' was released on this principle. After Buckner & Garcia's "Pac-Man Fever" single became a hit, they signed a record deal with Columbia/CBS Records, who insisted insisted on a full album of video-game songs.

* ''Pinball/JamesBond007'' was marketed through its [[TimedMission time-based gameplay]], though this is ''also'' what led to its downfall.

In some forms of media, Appeal to Novelty occurs when a new work includes an original feature solely in an attempt to attract an audience by appealing to their curiosity. Note that in this use, appealing to novelty is ''not'' inherently "right" or "wrong;" the novelty might end up actually attracting an audience, [[FollowTheLeader drawing lots of imitators]] in the process, eventually resulting in the original being VindicatedByHistory.

** The original version was not a fallacy, however, but instead was expressing exasperation that racism and sexism still exist in the 21st century despite both prejudices being completely disproven decades ago, in the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement of the [=1960s=] and women’s lib in the [=1970s=], respectively.

* A constant point of contention between the steamies and diesels of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. Diesels like [[ADogNamedDog Diesel]], 'Arry & Bert view themselves as modern and more efficient engines than steam engines, who they think should be scrapped to make way for them.

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* Deconstructed in "Literature/{{Oracle}}" by Creator/GregEgan. Jack Hamilton is a very old-fashioned Christian apologist in the year 1958, who was humiliated in a debate years earlier by a fellow Christian who, due to her commitment to intellectual honesty, demonstrated the flaws in all of his apologetics arguments, in the hope that Christians could hold their beliefs for legitimate reasons. All this did was convince Hamilton that [[IRejectYourReality Christianity is incompatible with reason, but Christianity is still objectively true]], and nowadays, whenever he sees his colleagues at the university, he silently mocks them for their "fashionable" belief in materialism, as if they ''only'' did so because it was new and exciting. Of course, he gets completely proven wrong by the hero of the story, on national television this time. In other words, liking the new thing is not a fallacy if there is actually evidence that the new way is better.

* The Internet meme [[CaptainObvious "IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR"]] mocks a variation of this fallacy in which the year is cited as an argument in favor of a newer position, e.g. "we must support X because it's [current year]". Obviously, if X is a good position, it should be supported because of its merit, not because a certain year has been arrived at. This variation was parodied as long ago as the 1959 Disney film ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'', in which "after all, this ''is'' the 14th century" was used as an argument for being more open-minded.

Also see NewAndImproved.

* WordOfGod is that ''Pinball/{{Xenon}}'' was originally intended as a single-ball game centered on the plastic transport tube. Bally management decided to add a female voice after Williams' ''Pinball/{{Gorgar}}'' and Stern's ''Pinball/{{Flight 2000}}'' arrived with simple MachineMonotone voices.