It’s one of the earliest games I have concrete memories of playing as a < 6 yo. My mom would do traveling craft fairs, which often had arcade tents. I had to carry around a milk carton to stand on once it was my turn to play.
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I had similar feelings about "youths" dismissing Titanic both as great - if flawed - cinema and also as a cultural phenomenon. I mean, it might be nostalgia or bad memory, but at the time it felt like Avengers: Endgame, but with no social media nor a 10-year-long franchise.
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Ever see that doc "How Video Games Changed The World" by Charlie Brooker? It's really great and attempts to treat video games as a serious area of study, while being silly of course. P. sure it can be found on YT (Warning tho Gli""er shows up for a few short minutes)
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Yep. There are a few games that do this to me, when our... juniors pay them no respect. Pac-Man is a big one, Space Invaders too, for what those did for arcades and gaming visibility in general. Tetris, too - a 10/10 puzzler that younger players will dismiss on looks.
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And beyond cultural impact, and what it did for Namco, for Midway, for games as cartoons, lunch boxes, toys and, um, records... Pac-Man is a genuinely brilliant game, anyway. Even now. A genuine evergreen where technology hasn't hamstrung its raw appeal.
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There's a lot of ahistoricism surrounding art these days :/
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It’s part of a problem I worry about, that we don’t have a terribly good preservation of video games and their history
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I'm not even from that era and I get the same vibes when people call Pong "boring." Like, it's literally the first game! Get off my lawn!
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History became legend Legend became myth And things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
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To be fair, there hasn't been anything of substance created in the last 20 years. So naturally young people aren't going to care about some yellow ball man that definitely blew my mind!
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I’m not saying they have to like the game or want to play it. I’m talking more about a kind of “lmao why would anyone ever be into this?” superiority or just a factually incorrect belittling delivered with confidence. Similar to when people watch old movies just to laugh at them.
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