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I don’t know if many on orange site knew about New Games Journalism - a pre-gamergate attempt to talk about video games in personal and political terms, applyin
by klik99 2y ago
I don’t know if many on orange site knew about New Games Journalism - a pre-gamergate attempt to talk about video games in personal and political terms, applying gonzo journalism to reviewing games. Mostly a push to take games seriously as a cultural force. This article feels like a strong precursor to it
- JKCalhoun 2y agoAdd to that Ralph Bakshi's film Heavy Traffic (1973) — a pinball table is something of a metaphor in the film for the fortunes and misfortunes of life. (That was a couple years before the John McPhee's article — must have been the Zeitgeist.)
- pjc50 2y agoI do, through the UK website rock-paper-shotgun. As you say, it was an attempt to bring the same style of writing and a personal, emotional touch to games as people are used to with film and books. It turned out that that kind of adulthood was not what gamers wanted.