my family didn’t have an “entertainment center” or tv cabinet or anything like that to house all of our media stuff. And the cables that connected it to the tv were plenty long enough so our genny sat on the table (or under the table when not in use) in the living room with the cord goint to the tv under a rug. We had to be able to change the cartriges easily so it made sense that the console was right in front of us, and without owning one of those tv cabinets it just seemed natural that the console would be closer to you than to the TV. After all there was a remote for the TV but changing games and pwering on the Sega had to be done manually.
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yeah, I think that was obviously how it they were meant to be used, and it struck me as funny as a kid that we couldn’t conceive of not having a TV cabinet, and if we ever tried not doing that then inevitably my sister or the dog would trip over the cables anyway
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We had a (short) TV cabinet but I plopped my ass right on the floor in front of it so I was close to the console anyway
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remember also that the master system had the pause button on the console
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Let me tell you about the guys who made Duke Nukem:
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that was the nomad prototype without a screen, right?
A Megadrive you rented on planes and guess used with the in backseat CRT.
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A friend was over and I was showing them R4 on the MiSTeR and they said they had recently seen a video about a controller for ps1 racing games and I said hold on and pulled out my negcon.
I should get some SNAC connectors for the mister.
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they must call you
Mister MISTeR
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Saying “Simcopter 1 reporting heavy traffic” to myself whenever stuck in traffic.
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I think I was definitely a ludoptimist like 8-10 years ago and while I still very much enjoy some vidgam and think they have a lot to offer that other mediums can’t replicate, they’re still just vidgam
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sounds ludocrous
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Lewdoptomist
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I’m still one of those tho
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I’ll be thinking about this a lot now. 
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I used to feel this way, sort of, kind of. I think it’s a natural part of growth to Have Hope that your hobby is going to Do Something.
I had a despair period of like “video games are pointless and perhaps actively harmful”
My current position is “hit buttons feel good”
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i had a much more cynical post ready but really it was just the venom injected into me by logging into Twitter for 15 minutes working its way out so i deleted it
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I definitely go through periods where I can’t bear to sit around with the knowledge that I am playing a videogame but tbh I am actually more comfortable knowing that’s a ~me~ thing rather than needing to generalize it to broader harms than I am with a lot of other stuff these days… videogames are like, much more visibly pointless and marginal than so many other things I’m judgmental about, low stakes
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