In Real Life

Video Game Snobbery Started A Long Time Ago

The hate of fake games and fake gamers goes back at least to 1988. That’s when a reporter from the esteemed magazine Newsweek was trying to make sense of the “fun, low-brainpower” games kids were playing in America and wanted to understand how some awful Atari-like crash could be avoided in the new age of Nintendo.


July 22, 2010
In Real Life

Summer Video Game Movie: Summer Games

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As we get in a summer gaming mood here, we’re spending part of the week watching clips of the most summer-styled games. How about an ’80s movie? Here’s Epyx’s 1984 hit, Summer Games for the Commodore 64.