Al diverse keren heb ik mijn mening gegeven over hoe gamen en nerd/geekdom nu mainstream zijn geworden, omdat ik toen ik opgroeide games, comics en sci fi films alleen in een kleine groep was geaccepteerd. Maar nu in 2012 speelt iedereen games en zijn films met superhelden populairder dan ooit. Maar de website Uproxx.com heeft nu deze lijst met vier redenen gemaakt, die aantonen dat nerd zijn in de jaren 80 als mainstream begon te worden.
Nintendo Changed What Gaming Was
People tend to forget that the entire reason gaming and being a nerd are so closely tied together is because until 1985, the only way to play games was to own some form of primitive computer. Well, primitive to us. Back then it was a new and rare beast.
Nintendo was a different beast. You weren't supposed to code your own programs. It simplified the process of playing games to insert tab A into slot B, press down, and press the power button. And it sold 62 million consoles.
When there's a game console in every home, you're already mainstream. This isn't even considering the Game Boy, whose sales dwarf the NES. In other words, millions of kids literally grew up gaming and never stopped. Hipsters didn't suddenly decide Mario T-shirts were awesome: They grew up playing Mario just like us.