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| Topic | "No, I was born before video games were popular"...really? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/22/18 10:18:43 PM #20: | GinsuVictim posted... Bullshit. The arcade boom was HUGE (not to mention the Atari 2600). I was a kid during that time and it was insane. And to be fair, the arcade boom also died off fairly quickly in the early 80s. That's the real problem - how do you define "when video games became popular"? The first time they became a fad? The first time a significant number of people owned home consoles? The first time it actually became somewhat acceptable for older teens and adults to play games regularly and not be treated like nerds or socially-immature weirdos? The first time video games started to have a regular and prolonged presence in pop culture? There are a LOT of ways to interpret the question, and none of them are really inherently more objectively correct than the others. I know I was absolutely a hardcore gamer in the 80s, and I wouldn't even remotely have said that gaming was "popular" at the time. I certainly wouldn't have thought it was something trendy or "cool" to do. I'd almost be willing to argue that gaming "popularity" is something that didn't really happen until the PS2 era (once the average age of gamers started tipping towards adults and college gamers started proliferating), regardless of whether or not there were earlier boom periods. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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