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I wish sleep wasn't so appealing now. (startrek.website)

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[–] elephantium 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For...decades?

I had to go back and read up on the early history of video games. SNES came out in 1991, and yeah - looking at arcade games, Computer Space came out in 1971.

Video games are older than I realized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh yeah, it all started with the arcades. There was a whole culture attached to it, and they were very popular.

I think it's fascinating to learn about how the developers figured out how to do things back then, the limitations, scaling/distribution, and then the rapid arms race between customers and devs to make games harder and harder to beat. There was an excellent documentary about this on Netflix a few years ago, but I can't remember the name off the top of my head.