Showing 9 posts tagged video games
Insult or complement? I’m not sure, but it seems apt regardless.
“The shotgun is, in all senses, instant puberty, which is to say, delicately, that to obtain it is to have the assumed added potency that a boy believes a man possesses vis a vis a world on which he’d like to have some impact. The shotgun is the punch in the face the once-scrawny boy on the beach gives the bully when he returns a muscled linebacker.”
Save The Endangered Video Game
A link to a paper examining the lack of preservation efforts for old console games, and the inadequacy of current approaches. The wonkiest paper on video game heritage you will ever read.
A demonstration of why I will never be a championship gamer.
There is Nothing New Under The Sun.
Without context, you might not understand that the photo on the left was taken right after the child defeated the notorious “Infant Dr. Wiley”.
The Citizen Kane of Essays About Video Games.
I thoroughly enjoyed this essay on video games, put up in two pieces on the Museum of the Moving Image’s website.
Totally worth a deep, thoughtful read.
High-res
Evoking the heroic saga of the age, apparently in styrofoam.
In an age of existential crises, it is important to remain focused on the most important global issues.
