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Screamapillar on 30 April 2013

Halo, Gears, and CoD. Mostly CoD.



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Carl on 30 April 2013

The Legend of Zelda on NES.

WOAH, NICE GRAPHICS. The advert for it even had rap.



                            

crissindahouse on 30 April 2013

maybe with ps2 and first xbox, the time when games like nfs underground and gta started to be really popular? ego-shooters expanded it but i don't think they are the main reason why those "dude bros" (that sounds so stupid) started gaming.

it didn't start with this gen...



Chark on 30 April 2013

They might have enjoyed sports games since the Sega Genesis days but Halo really catapulted that portion of the mainstream. I suppose before halo Goldeneye. It has then transferred over to Call of Duty and became more apparent to the rest of us gamers due to online gaming, voice chat, and increased internet use.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

Veknoid_Outcast on 30 April 2013
Carl2291 said:
The Legend of Zelda on NES.

WOAH, NICE GRAPHICS. The advert for it even had rap.

LOL

God that commerical was so bad.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 30 April 2013
Soundwave said:

It honestly probably started in earnest with the Sega Genesis in the early 1990s. That's when console gaming started to shift away from being more a of "family entertainment" type device and more towards something marketed primarily to male teenagers on MTV.

Contrary to popular belief too, it was the Genesis that popularized the Madden NFL, FIFA, NBA Live, NHL, etc. franchises not Sony. Mortal Kombat was probably the original "dudebros blockbuster".  I think Mortal Kombat is really probably the start of "dudebros culture". That was the "Call of Duty" of its day, no question.

Then it went up a notch with the introduction of the Playstation brand and up another notch with the rise of the XBox brand which brought a lot of games that probably would've otherwise been on PC (like Halo) to the console side.

It's been developing for a while.

Those franchises were big on the genesis but once they made the 3D switch to Playstation it was finished. I played NBA 2k on the Dreamcast when I was younger.



Dr.JimmyRustles on 30 April 2013

Generation 6.



PureDante on 30 April 2013
curl-6 said:
2006-2007 with Gears of War, COD4, and Halo 3. In other words, it's all the Xbox 360's fault. ;)


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All of this, of course, is just my opinion.

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Kantor on 30 April 2013

I... don't really think it is.

It's now pretty much just a mainstream thing, and it's not considered in the slightest bit shameful if you admit to being a dedicated gamer. Hell, the dudebroes you describe, if they even do play games, tend to stick to the same 3-4 franchises, so saying that dudebro and gamer are synonymous is pretty ridiculous.



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Busted on 30 April 2013

When COD.