The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWho remembers playing N64 while watching Nixon resign?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down123
arrow-up199arrow-down1imageWho remembers playing N64 while watching Nixon resign?lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarearkthos@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoIt gets very blurry in the early days of video games. Ahoy made a great video about just that, actually: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc&pp=ygUYYWhveSBlYXJsaWVzdCB2aWRlbyBnYW1l Basically, there’s earlier games than pacman, but what actually constitutes a video game starts to become a much less trivial question.
It gets very blurry in the early days of video games. Ahoy made a great video about just that, actually: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc&pp=ygUYYWhveSBlYXJsaWVzdCB2aWRlbyBnYW1l
Basically, there’s earlier games than pacman, but what actually constitutes a video game starts to become a much less trivial question.