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To speak frankly, these types of articles annoy me. Each time one of them comes up they try to be more 'artsy' than the last one, but they all say the same old thing: "I'm old and the way I'm used...
To speak frankly, these types of articles annoy me. Each time one of them comes up they try to be more 'artsy' than the last one, but they all say the same old thing: "I'm old and the way I'm used to things have become obsolete. Here's some dubious statements that make it seem like the world is going to hell". This quote is a good illustration with the problem with these types of editorials:
Eventually they took the arcade machine out of the 7-Eleven entirely, and the arcade business collapsed.
That's completely ignoring that the video game industry is multiple orders of magnitude larger than it ever was during the age of arcades and how many of the big names from that time period are still the big names today - Nintendo, Konami, Namco, Taito, and Sega are all still around and are bigger businesses than ever. Even more bizzarely, he bookends the piece by talking about a time he visited a Dave & Buster's location (which for some reason he has decided to link to a Vice piece about the Animatronic band that used to be at Chuck E. Cheese).
To speak frankly, these types of articles annoy me. Each time one of them comes up they try to be more 'artsy' than the last one, but they all say the same old thing: "I'm old and the way I'm used to things have become obsolete. Here's some dubious statements that make it seem like the world is going to hell". This quote is a good illustration with the problem with these types of editorials:
That's completely ignoring that the video game industry is multiple orders of magnitude larger than it ever was during the age of arcades and how many of the big names from that time period are still the big names today - Nintendo, Konami, Namco, Taito, and Sega are all still around and are bigger businesses than ever. Even more bizzarely, he bookends the piece by talking about a time he visited a Dave & Buster's location (which for some reason he has decided to link to a Vice piece about the Animatronic band that used to be at Chuck E. Cheese).