It started with Pac-man in the arcade and each gen since then added another notch on the social acceptability meter.
My wife always likes to break out a statistic that she picked up in one of her sociology classes, that back in the prime of arcades (early-80's), women actually spent more money in arcades than men.
It started with Pac-man in the arcade and each gen since then added another notch on the social acceptability meter.
My wife always likes to break out a statistic that she picked up in one of her sociology classes, that back in the prime of arcades (early-80's), women actually spent more money in arcades than men.
If that is indeed true I imagine it's only because they sucked at the games and had to pump in more quarters to keep playing.
They started making games for everyone. Not just us "nerds" and you can do things in games that you cant do in real.. everyone wants to do that in some form or another. I think it was the N64 that grabbed a large non-gamer crowd.
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Originally posted by: Shahid
Originally posted by: Redivivus
An adult failure with an SE!!
That sir is a paradox.
I prefer to think of it as a dialetheism. With a pinch of facetiousness.
Originally posted by: Indigo_Streetlight
It started with Pac-man in the arcade and each gen since then added another notch on the social acceptability meter.
My wife always likes to break out a statistic that she picked up in one of her sociology classes, that back in the prime of arcades (early-80's), women actually spent more money in arcades than men.
Originally posted by: arch_8ngel
Originally posted by: Indigo_Streetlight
It started with Pac-man in the arcade and each gen since then added another notch on the social acceptability meter.
My wife always likes to break out a statistic that she picked up in one of her sociology classes, that back in the prime of arcades (early-80's), women actually spent more money in arcades than men.
If that is indeed true I imagine it's only because they sucked at the games and had to pump in more quarters to keep playing.