Evening All,
I've been thinking about my digital history recently.
Like the rest of youz (!), it's part of my life story, and part of what makes me what I am.
Back in the day, if my memory serves me correctly, there was a frightening amount of actual and implicit prejudice against the decadent enjoyment of frivolous distractions like video games.
I suspect I'm not the only one whose entry into the sphere of computer entertainment was a diplomatic exercise involving an impassioned speech on the ?educational? value of the home computing experience? And is it just me, or does anyone else remember the disdain in which video games were held by the media, and by extension, the whole of the adult world? Anyone else clock the pompous bullplop with which McNaughton Davies decried the value of video games on Micro Live? It was almost as if anyone who couldn't get off their t#ts on spreadsheets was a deviant ?? Then their was the insinuation that anyone who frequented an arcade was a junkie or a general crim. Remember that? I mean, I didn't get that at home, but it was projected at high volume by the media.
I'm just wondering how persistent that meme has been. Given how massive home and arcade video games got in the 80s, it never ceases to amaze me how may grownups who it turns out are many years younger than me, have never really engaged with video games, or for some reason, continue to view them through very prejudiced spectacles. That's clearly not the case on here! But what about in the wider adult world? Are there still issues 'coming out' as an Arcadist in the modern world ???
I've been thinking about my digital history recently.
Like the rest of youz (!), it's part of my life story, and part of what makes me what I am.
Back in the day, if my memory serves me correctly, there was a frightening amount of actual and implicit prejudice against the decadent enjoyment of frivolous distractions like video games.
I suspect I'm not the only one whose entry into the sphere of computer entertainment was a diplomatic exercise involving an impassioned speech on the ?educational? value of the home computing experience? And is it just me, or does anyone else remember the disdain in which video games were held by the media, and by extension, the whole of the adult world? Anyone else clock the pompous bullplop with which McNaughton Davies decried the value of video games on Micro Live? It was almost as if anyone who couldn't get off their t#ts on spreadsheets was a deviant ?? Then their was the insinuation that anyone who frequented an arcade was a junkie or a general crim. Remember that? I mean, I didn't get that at home, but it was projected at high volume by the media.
I'm just wondering how persistent that meme has been. Given how massive home and arcade video games got in the 80s, it never ceases to amaze me how may grownups who it turns out are many years younger than me, have never really engaged with video games, or for some reason, continue to view them through very prejudiced spectacles. That's clearly not the case on here! But what about in the wider adult world? Are there still issues 'coming out' as an Arcadist in the modern world ???
