Oh god, let me mourn my poor, tiny DA elf with her giant man hands, and the swagger that made her look desperate not to touch her arms to any other part of her body.

A Faraday keeps the hackers away.

I dunno how you talk dude but i never know what I´m going to say until after I open my word-hole 

I actually just addressed this in another reply. I agree completely where online-only games are concerned. I can see this being a major issue, and it actually already is for some people.

Since you are an archaeologist yourself, chances are you already know about this, but I edited a book recently called The Interactive Past: https://www.academia.edu/33084726/The_Interactive_Past_Archaeology_Heritage_and_Video_Games

Luckily I don’t actually see us losing this. There are massive groups of preservationists. Both in physical media, and digital. The machines themselves, are often preserved as well, and there are in fact museums dedicated to archaic digital machines, computers, gaming systems, and more. The best part of all of…

“While the series has existed for years in Japanese arcades, Gundum Versus was built from the ground up for console and is the first to make it to the states.”

Being mean to the player because her child died right in front of her. I get that she’s just a fictional character, but I swear that video gamers these days have absolutely no empathy for other human beings. We’re a generation of goddamn psychopaths.

That commercial is so incredibly 90s. It’s fantastic and terrible and I love/hate it.

And i love that it wasn't just some fraud who took all the money and then ran away with it. He actually organized a potato salad festival, made a lot of people laugh, and helped charity quite a bit.

Bah. I came here to hear all 251 cries AT ONCE.

That's all fine and dandy, but can their Bitcoin mine run Crisis?

"Unfortunately, what is present in Gundam Side Stories is not even close to being the full game."

I like the fading color ones they have but I'm happy with my nes gameboy sp model I got awhile back.

The term "soccer" came from England and only lost its popularity in the late 20th century. In the 19th century, there were two types of "football" - rugby football and Association football, which were nicknamed "rug-ger" and "soc-cer." The Yanks got the term from the English; it originated at Oxford…

They actually played baseball before the war. And during the war, they banned English terms like "strike" and "out," substituting Japanese ones because America was the enemy. Yet...they continued to play baseball. After the war, words like "strike" and "out" returned.

I'm game - the idea seems to be that each pair is the same bio age, right? I think Hani and Jojo are both sixteen, so that definitely looks like the point that's being made here. So that in mind, I'll hazard the following guesses:

In addition to the many great eighties-style hairdos and outfits on display here, the video gives a fascinating glimpse into how people were beginning to make sense of just what Pac-Man, and video games as whole, truly were.