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I couldn't find anywhere else to put this, but I happened to hear this little story on my way to work -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98766594&ft=1&f=10
I always find it hilarious how people from outside of the gaming community approach things like Penny Arcade. The tone is always so cautious and confused, like they're dealing with some sort of "arcayne occult magicks."
However, it wasn't terrible, which is always a plus.
It's funny that while they were talking about "http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/24/" - they mentioned the first two panels, but skimmed over the gratuitous violence implied in the third.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98766594&ft=1&f=10
I always find it hilarious how people from outside of the gaming community approach things like Penny Arcade. The tone is always so cautious and confused, like they're dealing with some sort of "arcayne occult magicks."
However, it wasn't terrible, which is always a plus.
It's funny that while they were talking about "http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/24/" - they mentioned the first two panels, but skimmed over the gratuitous violence implied in the third.
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It's cool they mentioned Child's Play, though.
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I'm not sure about the term "floppy-haired," though. Tycho, maybe, but Gabe's hair clearly maintains its own personal gravitational field.
And even if this piece is somewhat shallow, the fact it's being talked about in relatively positive tones on NPR is a fairly significant signal of how far gaming culture has come in terms of acceptability.
Besides that, good piece
Also, how the FUCK did I miss that "Jessie's Girl" comic
Oh my god I love that song, Tycho really DID have it coming
<insert CAD miscarriage joke here>
Underdogs? Absurd.
It's hard to change public perception. The baby boomers were just a bit too old to get into the videogame scene and it's their cultural impressions we're living with in the media.
PAX isn't good evidence of general popularity.
And they aren't even really in the same type as Marvel and DC. They're more competing, if competing is the right word, with the likes of Doonesbury, or if Calvin and Hobbes were still around (
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If the ESA is to be believed:
1. U.S. computer and video game software sales grew six percent in 2007 to $9.5 billion – more than tripling industry software sales since 1996.
2. Sixty-five percent of American households play computer or video games.
3. The average game player is 35 years old and has been playing games for 13 years.
4. The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 40 years old.
5. Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (33 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).
6. In 2008, 26 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
7. Thirty-six percent of heads of households play games on a wireless device, such as a cell phone or PDA, up from 20 percent in 2002.
I'd say videogames are pretty much mainstream and culturally accepted and seen as a viable entertainment medium. I think it's gotten to the point where even the stuffy old men in the newspaper offices are taking notice of what's actually going on.
I'd say that being a self sustaining business is also a pretty good indication that you've 'made it.'
Indeed. But the point is that traditionally newspaper syndication was evidence of making it, and still is largely, at least to non web comic viewing audience and their media, like NPR or whatever your local equivalent is. It shouldn't detract from the fact that PA has a very large audience and has turned it into a self sustaining business.
There are all sorts of things like this, say for example non English language pop/rock tours in English speaking countries. They might make stupid amounts of money and get tens of thousands of people attending their concerts, but they are generally off the radar when it comes to the mainstream music or media press
It's pretty much mainstream for people 40 and younger, and every year it's getting bigger and bigger, but the message of mainstream media is still for whatever reason crafted by and targeted at baby boomers, and as long as they are in power, a disproportionately large influence will be exerted by them on cultural perceptions.
I disagree. Year after year gaming becomes more and more mainstream, and adults are beginning to understand it's not just for little kids. It's still rife with misunderstanding (but what isn't) but with the Nintendo Wii and DS coming out people of all ages are beginning to play games. My family got a Wii for Christmas and my mom loves it, and she's hardly a gamer.
But like someone said, you can only put so much in a 3-minute spot.
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