Is history repeating itself? (Casual Gamers)

[rocketpig]

mancandy said:
I don't think there is much of a similarity. Was there such a thing as a "gamer" back in the days of the Atari2600 or even the NES?

Oh yeah there was. As the younger brother of a Pac-Man fiend, I can testify that "gamers" existed back then.

Some of those bastards would spend an incredible amount of time playing Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Centipede, and others. My brother was ridiculously good at Pac-Man. Back then you were a god if you could "flip" the Pacman score.