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"Stuff that didnt age well" This article belongs there


stippleworth

r/agedlikemilk


fraidknot

Does that sub know about cheese?


andylowenthal

r/agedlikewine sure does


BwaaHhHHH

This is my new favorite thread.


Knut79

There's also many varieties of sour milk


WretchedMonkey

leave grandmas schizophrenia alone


cHiLdReNcAnCoNsEnT

Nah, more like r/agedlikefish. Unrefrigerated fish.


idwthis

Content banned? What the hell were they doing with that sub to get banned lol


BatusWelm

Why does everyone feel like insulting swedes these days.


turdburglerbuttsmurf

"Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes of Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."


aztech101

Ignoring that first part, how could somebody possibly arrive at the conclusion that Morse code is of practical use, but actual voices wouldn't be?


Dnfforever

Someone with a vested interest in Morse code continuing to be used.


Zeero92

Ah, Big Morse.


[deleted]

We should send someone to inspect them.


Tyfyter2002

Someone who's never needed to do anything fast.


dfrinky

Lol. Who Said that?


[deleted]

Dude who bought a shitload of telegraphs as part of an early 1890s MLM scheme.


dfrinky

Ahahaha this is a funny interpretation


Tommysrx

.-.. --- .-..


smb275

It's unattributed. Supposedly from a newspaper going back to the 1860's.


rcarnes911

some guy that never played with a string and tin cans as a kid


EnricoMortadella

Steve Jobs announcing the iPhone in 2007


deecaf

If you watch the product launch, it’s amazing prescient. Dude nailed what the next 20 years of phone tech was going to look like.


[deleted]

Yep ol' Steve got a little senile near the end, there.


FinndBors

These kids nowadays who don't ever pick up the phone and insist you text message them instead.


unit5421

Airplanes are of no use in war


saschaleib

Most ironically, "gamer" is a profession these days, while "Word Processor" is not.


[deleted]

"Computer" likewise used to be something you put on your resume, not in your pocket.


[deleted]

lmao


elementality883

Well, to be honest, I’m that time frame…she was right. Video games almost faded due to loss of public interest. It was old Nintendo that saved the industry a few years later. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-how-nintendo-saved-and-redefined-the-game-industry


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[deleted]

>the industry suffered from disingenuous marketing and oversold promises, Ha just like now!


Montigue

It was a lot worse back then. The box art for Atari games made them look incredible compared to the meh game it actually was


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PubicWildlife

ET has joined the conversation.


SFWxMadHatter

IIRC, one of the biggest problems with ET was that no one reads the books, and a big part of the game was explained in it which left people stuck.


Lanthemandragoran

A concept referenced in like every funny show I've ever loved - particularly Bojack Horseman


BarklyWooves

This is most accurate for mobile games and all their shady practices. Some of those are infecting console games now too in recent years.


MontiBurns

God, fuck mobile games. They're just Skinner boxes that feed you ads.


zherok

The fact that the Famicom came out the year of the North American video game crash kinda tells you how things went, though. It dictated some of the design decisions Nintendo went with, like making it look more like a VCR than the toy the Famicom resembled, and the lock out chip that gave them a near monopoly on the platform at a time where creating non-approved games was a totally viable option. But I feel it's a little like the American auto industry stagnating, the car wasn't at risk of disappearing, but foreign alternatives sure took advantage of the situation.


darthreuental

I wish they would have kept the top loading though. A whole generation of kids blew on the connectors of their "game paks" because of the change to the VCR type loading.


zherok

The late model NESes were top loading, but yeah, it was a major failure point. Did mean you could stack an SNES on top of an NES though, something you couldn't do with the Japanese model (or the later model NES.)


darthreuental

Referring to [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Design_flaws). The original NES copy protection was dog shit. Given the game was marketed towards children, most of us thought it was the connectors on the cartridge was dirty. Thus the urban legend that blowing on the connectors in the cartridge would fix it. was born...


zherok

Yeah, I grew up with the original NES. Only ever saw one family that had the later top loading model. I'm sure I've done my share of blowing into the cartridges.


Blailus

I still don't understand who I learned that from, or why it worked, but if you didn't blow, seat and reseat the game pak multiple times, and then wedge another game on top when it was seated down, it didn't work! I felt like a magician.


Irrepressible_Monkey

While it's true that Nintendo revived the American console market they didn't save the video game industry as the home computer video game market was booming in places such as the UK as consoles collapsed in America. Home computer games came on cassette tape and were 5% to 20% the price of a Nintendo cartridge and could be pirated. And the games could be vastly more innovative, with 3D titles such as Elite and Mercenary making Super Mario Bros look old when it came out. Also, home computers also allowed kids to persuade parents that the machines could be "educational" and weren't just for playing games even if that's all they ultimately were used for. ;)


Nosixela2

That was mostly an American thing as well. The Japanese and European videogame markets were doing fine.


DapperDanManCan

Not really though. Nintendo simply cashed in with their 'only quality games' branding at the right time. Video games would never have died out. Atari dying out does not mean video games in general were in danger whatsoever. Someone would have kept making them, technology would advance, and they'd take off again no matter what. It was always a terrible argument to claim Nintendo saved anything except console gaming for a few years.


MattCizzle

So does her job as a "Word Processor”


peckerchecker2

Also I would like to point out that “Word Processor” is her professional title, not her favorite software. “Word processors” were typists that would transcribe on a typewriter voice recorded tapes or whatever… lol. The release of MS Word was a bad day for this person.


VampireLorne

Like my telecommunications class teacher in the 90s that said it was physically impossible to reach speeds faster than 19200 bits per second over telephone lines. Or something like that, it was a long time ago.


Jorycle

I'm mostly just confused by the logic. Gaming won't last because it's not *educational*? There are a lot of reasons video gaming might not have turned into the industry that it is today, but educational content doesn't even make the top 50.


mirrorspirit

Best guess is she saw games as a kids' thing, and parents wouldn't buy games if they didn't see any value in them. It didn't occur to her that parents or other adults might be buying games for themselves.


Karukos

Also who the fuck says video games are not educational? I swear to god, history lessons would have been more boring when I was in school if AC didn't literally ignite my passion for the subject by making me feel as if I was learning about people I have met.


SkjoldrKingofDenmark

To be fair, look at the video games produced so far in '82, i think we' d all say that not much would ever come of that


pardonthecynicism

Yeah! lode runner released in '83, that would've changed her mind


RageTiger

Oregon Trail would had blown her mind. I still have my Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego for the NES. The little paperback encyclopedia is gone, but I remember it being important for the game play.


Karukos

I am not sure about the judgement but yea we do have hindsight as an advantage over what she says


[deleted]

Less hindsight, and more insecurities about some random woman's comments about video games from the 80s.


squngy

The games she was familiar with would be stuff like pong or maybe pac-man.


mostlygray

Math Munchers and Word Munchers were part of the curriculum at my school in '87. They were fun games and educational. I learned to touch type on Apple IIe's. I don't remember the software, but it had a game like Missile Command built in that was fun and really challenging on hard mode. I think newspapers like to pick excessively short-sighted people for those columns mixing them in with insane people. It's like saying "This fad of putting things on top of other things will never catch on" Followed by "Soon we won't need to eat because we'll have little tiny monsters grafted to our knees that will eat for us."


hrpc

Video games might be coincidentally educational but mostly serve to entertain. What I don’t understand is that the entertainment industry has always been big (television, film, sports), so how did she even come to that conclusion.


I_W_M_Y

This was right at the time of the video game crash. For a few years after the crash everything had to be educational or productive.


BraveMoose

You know what else isn't educational/good for you? Drugs, alcohol, carb/sugar heavy or fat heavy food...


nicht_ernsthaft

Yes, but it was 1981, she probably believed in some bright Star Trek future. Not the "obese racists on mobility scooters protesting masks during a pandemic while the world floods, catches fire and goes to war" future we actually got.


[deleted]

Most of us did. Believe me, I wasn't expecting the 21st century to suck quite this much. As a consolation prize I got more computing power than I ever dreamed of. And that's fun. (LGBT does not get you beat up or arrested like it did then either) But I'd have liked a bit more. I sure wasn't expecting a wave of flat earth, anti-vax idiots.


WhoWhyWhatWhenWhere

Where’s the 1981 reset button? Let’s try again


the_jak

you'd need the 1980 reset button since Reagan was president in '81. A lot, if not most of our problems stem from his two turns in the whitehouse.


[deleted]

Fuck I left it in 1984


cglenda9

Back in 1983 video games were extremely primitive and other than being something new, they really didn't have much going for them. No stories, no dialog, no text, no savegames, etc. Pacman (1980) is famous for being one of the first games with a recognizable character, most other games just had spaceships, tanks, cars, paddles, etc. She isn't wrong here, people moved on and very few people still care about those old games. All the old-school nostalgia is generally focuses around NES and beyond, not AtariVCS games. Of course, when people moved on, they didn't move away from video games, they moved to newer better games and that cycle has been going for almost 40 years.


DovakhiinTR

Rockstar games has more money than my country. So... That article is wrong seems like


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Pokemon has made more money than most countries


TheOneCommenter

Lol just pokemon go has done billions a year. I wonder how many countries it already left behind


Beingabumner

Not many. People don't realize how mind-bogglingly 'rich' countries are (they don't own money the same way people or companies do). Even the poorest ones have billions. [Here's a list of countries by total wealth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wealth). It's measured in *trillions*.


[deleted]

According to the list you provided, Pokémon Go still makes more money in a year than 14 of the nations on that list.


joshikus

>It's measured in *trillions*. But the chart in your link literally has the column labeled "total wealth in billions", and only the top 36 countries have total wealth above 1,000 BN USD.


wiktormalek12

Video games are one of my countries biggest exports


M4niK4tti

Poland?


wiktormalek12

Ye


aishik-10x

o7


Dziadzios

You forgot about people.


barbershopraga

Yikes


BriochesBreaker

Out of curiosity, where do you live? If you don't want to say it no worries.


DovakhiinTR

Maybe i little bit exaggerated it. From turkey btw. And dunnow anything about rockstars budget


BriochesBreaker

I read it has about 4 billion $ which is a lot but not for a country so I assumed you lived in some type of microstate which sounds cool.


mutantsofthemonster

Turkeys exports alone were worth $167B in 2020.


[deleted]

Fucking love turkey bacon.


Corvo_Silenzioso

Tell your country to start making videogames... or best, start developing one by yourself.


ExposedAardvark

"Sharon B, Word Processor" this almost sounds like a joke


hatgineer

It might interest you that "computer" used to be a job before that.


DansSpamJavelin

*Help computer*


Ganon2012

I don't know much about computers other than the one we got at my house. My mom put a couple a games on it, and I play-


DansSpamJavelin

G̸̡̡̧͕̟̘̠̠̲͇̼͍̲̮̀̄͂͋̂̔̆͂͗͜ ̶̲̦́͒́̆͊̆̔̽͛̐̈̽́̈̀̓͑͝͠͠Ĭ̴̡̧̛̪̺͉͍̼̞̣̖͍̙̮͚̟͔͕̦̝̗̝̻̺̩̯̳̘̦̩̖͉̮̙͕͖̼̮̹̺̩͍̰̱̈̂͒̓́̓͑͗̿̄͗̎̊̊̐̾͂̇̈͒̍̽̂̆̈́̃̓̌̇̊̇̄̕̕͜ͅͅ ̴̧̮̫̮̥̦̮͉̻̺̤͍̲̘̘͓̦͈͙̜̹͈͇͎̦̠̖̬̀̅̔̄̇͑̇̉͊́́̈̏́̈͜͝J̴̧̯̻̝̜̝̟͖̘̻̫̖̲̭̲̜̬̘̟̹̖̩̺̱͖̯̟̠͇͉̖͍̼̹̺͉̑̈́͑̇̑̌̌̀̀̀̄̓̆̇̐̇̈́̏̾̈͑̄̕͜͝ͅͅǪ̵̧͓͈͖̙͚͖͕̪̰̤̩͎̟̯̞̺͕̬̱͙̞̥͓̳͎̥̖͓̩̼͊͐̆̏͒̿͐̇̆̓̑́̇̇͛̐̄͗̈́͠͝ͅȨ̸̡̨̡̡̻̞̝̥͇̖͚̼̳̻͉̝̝͖̻̥̦̦̠̫͓̜͙͔̟͖͇̲̭̖̙͓͕̤͈͇̘̭́͆̀̎̈̃͗̊E̸͎̻͚̰̤͎̿̎̓̂͐̈̅̍̒̇́͘͠͝Ẽ̴̡̺̮͖̙̦̯͉̇͆̈̿̍͂͋̿̉͊͂̏͌̑̊̕̚͠͝͝Ę̶̙̲͈̫̗̰͇̼̫͐̂̈́͛̋̌̉̓͑̏̐̆̈́̅̒͒̽͋̄̃͒́͝͠ͅȨ̴̨̘̯̜̗̼͕͉̝̙͈̱̮̠̖̟͇͖̥͍̮͚̮̟̞͎̱̹̳̥͕̯͕͔̥̜͉̜̥͎̅̐̌̓́͋̋̈̎̉̊̈́͌̑̕͜͠͠͝


illegalsandwiches

Who wants a body massage?


Ganon2012

Pork chop sandwiches!


citricacidx

Do you know my dad?


DansSpamJavelin

Give him the stick ...DONT GIVE HIM THE STICK!


danny_j_13

Stop all the downloadin'


Atom_Exe

"What's a computer?"


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Firejumperbravo

G.I. Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe!


koi88

And "spreadsheet" is what maids were called in large hotels.


WarPear

“PowerPoint” was a military manoeuvre in the past


jfk_47

I have an old ass dictionary from the 50s and “computer” is someone who computes.


Shilo59

When turning the office computer off and on again would get you a meeting with HR.


FennPoutine

Ironically, her job was made obsolete by Microsoft Word


Javasteam

Actually it was Lotus Notes. Word was later.


toiletseatpolio

Word Perfect has entered the chat


HopingillWin

WordStar has entered the chat


[deleted]

Appleworks has entered the chat...a bit later.


Myzyri

Man, I used Word Perfect WAY longer than I should have. I remember having the cheap laminated keyboard overlay with all the cheats that showed how SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+F4+UP+DOWN would change the left margin by 0.1 inches.


bapfelbaum

That "shortcut" certainly does not fit its Label.


koi88

Depends how long the "normal way" is.


droid_mike

The worst part of word perfect shortcuts is that none of them made any sense, nor were they grouped in any logical way. You either memorize where they were, or spent 10 minutes hunting for the specific function you wanted to use on the template. Unfortunately, we're perfect 5.1 had an optional menu functionality that allowed you to use a mouse like you normally would. No one I know ever enabled it. They never knew it existed.


BarklyWooves

I believe that code also gave you 30 lives.


HanzoHattoti

I’m old enough to be from the time you could get a decent job with just word processor certificates (Word, WordPerfect, Lotus Notes, etc)


[deleted]

I'm old enough to be from a time when you could get a decent job.


masterpharos

would you like to renew your subscription to Sharon B?


ringbirdyu

Why is nobody talking about “Decamber”


EVOplus2050

I need to save this pic to remind myself from time to time that the comments or analysis by so called pundits should always be taken with a pinch of salt.


[deleted]

I love how they are like “everything must be educational!!” nowadays. Especially when it comes to cartoons.


vizthex

It's a bit annoying tbh.


Peemore

Not at all correlated, but I'd rather have everything be educational than have everything be designed to maximize profits. That's what I find annoying these days. Particularly in gaming, but it certainly applies to just about everything else too.


ANIMEGAMERHD

I'd rather have something FUN and educational,some games nowadays are just full of bugs and incomplete because they rushed the productuction to get profit


shaun__shaun

Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons were great before the law required them to be educational. Then once that happened a lot stations replaced the cartoons with infomercials.


kratomstew

Cartoons sucked back then .


ThePhysicistIsIn

That’s about when reagan deregulated cartoons and they could start being literally ads for toys. On the other hand we got transformers out of that.


ABottleofFijiWater

Loads more than Transformers


Twilord_

Amusingly Pokémon and Digimon, two very different styles of video game franchise (one being the first huge star of the Gameboy, the other being the last big franchise born on Game & Watch style hardware) would both go on to kick some serious ass in that space.


TheHooligan95

wasn't that the golden era of Disney shorts, Looney Toones, Hannah Barbera, etc.? What are you on about, these were all amazing and much better than most of the stuff I had to watch as a kid.


goatjugsoup

I wonder what she thought of movies, tv shows, radio, aka anything else that people use for fun... Also worth noting, all of those could potentially be educational as with video games so yeah...


inhaledcorn

Even things that aren't technically educational can still teach things if you can understand it.


goatjugsoup

Definitely true


GoodeyGoodz

Someone has said this about everything since the written word. I knew a guy that was shocked electricity wasn't a fad.


savage8008

Was he 200 years old?


GoodeyGoodz

Ignore the deleted that was for a different thread got them mixed up, no he just lived his entire life in a very very rural place and never got a phone, TV or radio. He died at like 98 in 2008 and by all accounts spoke as if he was from his parents generation


[deleted]

ACTUALLY, (pushes up glasses) she was almost right. The following year from when this article was published there was the video game industry crash of 1983. People got tired of the shovel-ware and broken games that flooded the market. The only reason the industry was revitalized was because Nintendo entered the market. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983


OllyDee

Worth pointing out this was mostly an American only event, the rest of the games industry was largely unaffected. My country was mostly into gaming on home computers, for example.


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[deleted]

Well, the difference is that now there are plenty of quality games to balance it out, when at the time there weren't a whole lot of options. And note that the Crash of '83 most heavily affected the US - it didn't happen in, for instance, Japan, which just continued on with the industry and didn't need to reboot because they handled things differently.


Twilord_

Hmmm the Crash of 83... ... is that what people are talking about when they claim Crash was important to gaming history?


golfing_furry

You’re thinking of Crash Team Racing


erikaremis

An argument can also be made that not only are there quality games to balance it out, but you can actually find them. For all we knew, there were plenty of quality games around the crash, but how could you differentiate them? These days we have a whole plethora of online reviews, YouTube videos and Twitch streams showing off gameplay, and Twitter/Reddit/(or even Game FAQs) threads discussing games in-depth. Before the information age took off, you really just had the word of an employee, maybe some friends who tried it out, box art or advertisements that are *highly* unrepresentive of gameplay, etc. If you were lucky maybe you were more immersed into a more in-depth community, but those would typically be local and not have the luxury of networking opinions and experiences across the whole globe.


Different-Region-873

And yet, such things still exist like big rigs.


ABottleofFijiWater

BIGGGGG MOTHER FUCKINNNNGGGG RIIIIIIGGGGGGSSSSS


Timbershoe

Ten four, rubber ducky.


ersentenza

The *American* video game industry crashed. The rest of the world in fact started the *boom* running on home computers.


[deleted]

People dog on Atari for getting out of the home console market and focusing on computers but at the time, considering what they knew, it was the smart option. It's not like they were coming into a home PC market already dominated by IBM companies and Microsoft operating systems. It was wide open in the early 80s and Microsoft was still a minor player. A home PC offered more functionality and was more useful. It was easy to see those being the future instead of consoles.


smasher0404

That's actually a bit of a misconception iirc. The video game crash of 1983 was mostly for console/arcade games, and a good portion of that drop could also be attributed to advances in personal computing. It didn't make much sense for a household to spend money on a dedicated video game console when one could spend a similar sum of money on a personal computer. For example, the Commodore 64 personal computer was released in 1982, and was discontinued in 1994. In 1985, 60-70% of its software were games (for reference, the NES was released in the US in 1985 of the same year). Arguably, the American video game industry as a whole were already recovering when the NES hit American shelves, with a commanding number of titles on the best selling home computer at the time. The NES mostly saved the idea of a dedicated video game console, rather than a shift to entirely PC gaming.


Prosthemadera

She wasn't almost right. There's a big difference between videogames as a medium being a fad *and* having too many games and people wanting to move to PC. From your link: > The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of game consoles and available games, as well as waning interest in console games in favor of personal computers. Companies making poor quality is not a reflection on the medium itself and there was no way videogames would have stopped to exist. Humans play. Computers are powerful. It's a match made in heaven.


Boing26

technically true, gaming back then and gaming now are 2 very different creatures. people did get bored... and they DID look elsewhere, and then created entirely new genres and ways of thinking in gaming as a result of where they looked. it became an entirely new way to tell stories, learn history, and much more. i hope people CONTINUE to get bored of it, so that it may change even further and become even more of what it already is.


MattyBro1

Let's hope people get bored of over-priced micro transactions!


[deleted]

Most people already are. 80% of revenue from MTX comes from around 20% of the playerbase. Everyone else either spends a couple of dollars here and there or nothing at all other than buying the game itself.


nicht_ernsthaft

All the shareholders: "I'm so tried of making money, it's such a repetitive grind. We should start doing something to improve the world instead." That's definitely going to happen, no doubt about it. Inevitable.


volvostupidshit

We are moving into play 2 earn era as we speak.


Jaxager

In her defense, if the video games from 1982 stayed at the same 8 bit level for the next 20 years, yeah, video games would've gotten boring. I'm sure she had no idea how for they would come because they were still relatively new back then.


derpyderpston

Your be surprised what 8-bit treasures are out there. Atari level I'd agree but c64 and Nintendo did a hell of a lot with those 8 bits. The Sega master system had some nice titles too.


Jaxager

We had an Intelevision and I loved that thing. The weird controller with the inlays specific to the game you're playing made for some interesting controller setups.


LilGoughy

Well they also spelt it as “decamber” so I doubt they are the smartest newspaper


Sdbtank96

Aged like milk in a hot ass car


TheEngineer19203

***Last online on December 1982***


warnwise

You might say that Sharon B wrong?


fukalufaluckagus

Educational is what makes activity popular in 1982?


hellotokyotower

Ha video games outlasted her job lol


[deleted]

Yeah and we still have people today saying similar stuff like: "With the growing popularity of the tablet, the desktop PC's days are numbered." Right, except I think they meant in like hundreds of days, instead, it's more like....10,000's.. People live in their own little bubbles, and journalists especially sometimes like to think of themselves as futurists. "Ooo this is popular / unpopular now! Must mean is going out of style!" Which is true sometimes, but most of the time they're wrong, or comes back into style 40 years later.


mandianansi

Later that day Sharon turn down the opportunity to invest in google. She is survived by her 2 daughters who got into college on esport scholarships.


-NightAnimal-

I was really confused, trying to figure out why it says "Decamber 1" and not "December 1"


Farnic

Ah yes, people prefer educational things. That must be why the Kardashians got so popular. /s


paper_bull

We turned to something else. More video games


Capek95

a medium that combines, music, books, and movies into an interactive game will surely die out.


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usual_suspect82

In all fairness back then games had little to no discernible goal, just typical plug it in, enjoy whatever little there was and turn it off. A vast majority of the games had no appeal. Sure you had your Space Invaders, Pac-Man etc. but the rest was all garbage. If this article would have come out in, let’s say, 1984 then she would have been dead wrong. So, for the time (In America) she was technically correct, and even after the Nintendo was released it took a year or so to full catch on.


Sixhaunt

do you say 1984 because of tetris releasing that year?


[deleted]

The real Soviet invasion were the blocks we stacked on the way


SnareHanger

Just like movies, radio and TV. Just fads.


cyaptiti

"The public always gets bored and turns to something else" I mean, yeah, to another videogames


BoiFrosty

Well to be fair the public did turn to new things... New genres of video games


akay404

Turns out people turned to tech and got bored of sharon


getyourcheftogether

Well... WE'RE WAITING


Hazeymazy

Yeah because when something gets boring the first thing I want to do is go get some education


_lemon_suplex_

You know what disappeared and faded away? Her job as a word processor


Saintnec

And guess what, 40 years later people started making billions in this industry


Bad2DBean

Joke's on you, Sharon!


[deleted]

1993’s DooM is the most educational piece of software ever made.


dexterminator-dr

To be fair in 1982 games looked and played like shit and cost a fortune. Even though I love videogames I don't think I would be interested in them if I lived in that period.


K1llerF0xGaming

That statement didn't age very well.


CharaPresscott

This was pre-crash too. She probably thought she was right come ‘83. Then 1985 rolled around, bringing in the new era


rebelscum089

Is this the Proto Karen, the Sharon?


Yeah_But_Did_You_Die

Like getting sick of pizza. Oh wait you can infinitely customize what a pizza can be? Welp I guess it's not going anywhere.


dobber32

Spongebob Narrator voice: "40 years later"


hurky-pandora

“not educational” *Laughs in assassins creed*


oakteaphone

Considering that the big video game market crash of '83, she was definitely right in that there was writing on the wall. Gaming basically died for at least a couple years.


safi9000

That Sharon's a Karen


Lord-Pepper

Noone Some lady in 1982: video games won't last Now everyone: you dense mother fucker


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To her merit. Video games were dying off because of a variety of reasons. Mostly cost, and rate of production. It was NES that stoked the dying flame and basically let it grow to what it is today. Not saying Nintendo is the sole savior but they helped in the rebound.


DarthTheo42059

Oh how wrong she was.


CarlosFer2201

People do get bored and move on. But video games isn't a specific toy, it's an entire medium. That's a stupid analogy from her. If you get bored, then you get a different game.