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Pokemon Go reminds me of nothing so much as the Macarena in 1995. It's a fad that will run its course. But a game getting that level of cultural penetration wil
by panglott 10y ago
Pokemon Go reminds me of nothing so much as the Macarena in 1995. It's a fad that will run its course. But a game getting that level of cultural penetration will be a real watershed.
- AndrewOMartin 10y agoI speculate that Tetris (possibly even just the 1989 GameBoy version) was bigger than the Macarena.
- iwontreddit 10y agoTetris wasn't that big before the Gameboy version. It was "big" in the tiny new computer/tech world, but it was gameboy which brought it into the mainstream.
- panglott 10y agoThe difference is that smartphones have a lot higher penetration than Gameboys did.
- knodi123 10y agoYes, but that difference is mitigated by the fact that tetris was the first mobile videogame that was popular or even socially acceptable for the post-college crowd to play. Now, the adult mobile gaming market is saturated.