Soundwave on 30 April 2013
| TheLastStarFighter said: All these comments are so funny. I can remember going to a pool hall in the 80's to play games like Joust or later Double Dragon or Bad Dudes, breathing in waves of second hand smoke and trying not to make eye contact with the scary older guy with spiked hair and a studded leather vest. Video games have been cool among guys since their inception. Computer games and RPGs have been the domain of geeks but the cool guys have loved PacMan, Donkey Kong, Super Mario, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, EA Sports, Halo, COD and on and on. This is absolutely nothing new. |
That's true, though I think the Sega Genesis was the first home game console to be heavily marketed oustide of the context of a game console either for the little kid in the family or the family itself.
To compete with Nintendo, Sega had to market more towards the growing population of teenage gamers. Then along came the popularization of two important game genres -- the fighting game genre and the sports simulation genre. After that, things changed.
