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wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org to retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software@lemmy.sdf.org ·
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It's obvious the narrator never played these games.

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It's obvious the narrator never played these games.

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wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org to retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software@lemmy.sdf.org ·
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Video Arcade "Addiction": When Pac-Man was King - CBS Evening News - January 29, 1982
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"Every younger generation has to have something to scare adults." In the early 1980s, video games and "Pac-Man Fever" were it. Terry Drinkwater reports.
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    gotta love those media scare pieces on something they don’t understand

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      Psychologist say…

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      it was dungeons and dragons in the 80s/90s

      it was call of duty in the 00s

      it was fortnite in the 10s

      what’s next? :P

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