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Ahoy's stupid "First Video Game" video

Started by Twed, October 04, 2019, 09:49:33 PM

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Twed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc

He spends most of this video defining what a video game is, in the stupidest way that achieves nothing. For example (paraphrasing):

"If we take the definition that it must be a game that runs on a raster display, it excludes vector games like Asteroids, so we need to include those".

If you keep adjusting the criteria so that it includes things you think are games in your gut then when does that tell you, Ahoy? Maybe that you're doing something completely meaningless and the conclusion should be "something is a video game if you use those words and people know what you're talking about".

I like Ahoy's videos but the world is slightly worse for having this crap sitting around as thesis reference fodder.

Doesn't really matter, I know. I just needed to get it off my chest.


Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth


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Why the steadfast refusal to call them computer games

popcorn

Quote from: Replies From View on October 07, 2019, 06:37:35 PM
Why the steadfast refusal to call them computer games

Because it makes you sound like a man in Leeds in 1988 with a flat full of Amiga games and copies of Viz.