The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWho remembers playing N64 while watching Nixon resign?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down123
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minus-squareleisesprecher@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·2 months agoJust to play devil’s advocate: Mario is without a doubt the oldest recognizable character that still has some modern appearances. You can’t really take pong and some shitty mobile game as a comparison.
minus-squareHeyJoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoI think Pac Man is the oldest, but only by a year.
minus-squarearkthos@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt gets very blurry in the early days of video games. Ahoy made a great video about just that, actually: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc&pp=ygUYYWhveSBlYXJsaWVzdCB2aWRlbyBnYW1l Basically, there’s earlier games than pacman, but what actually constitutes a video game starts to become a much less trivial question.
Just to play devil’s advocate: Mario is without a doubt the oldest recognizable character that still has some modern appearances. You can’t really take pong and some shitty mobile game as a comparison.
I think Pac Man is the oldest, but only by a year.
It gets very blurry in the early days of video games. Ahoy made a great video about just that, actually: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc&pp=ygUYYWhveSBlYXJsaWVzdCB2aWRlbyBnYW1l
Basically, there’s earlier games than pacman, but what actually constitutes a video game starts to become a much less trivial question.