Honestly, I'm more angry about the meme creator thinking that Super Mario Bros. was 1972.

There are actually very few games overall where you jump on enemies.

It's frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.

Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren't any books and comics?

That's right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.

Philomena Cunk on video games

It's like hearing someone say "there were no strong female leads in movies before the Hunger Games"

movies and tv shows are pretty simple -- you had charlie chaplin and leave it to beaver and then the last of us on HBO.

i have a private school/ivy league education in film theory btw. i'm short for time, so excuse the grammer.

As far as I'm concerned Pong is the ONLY video game worth playing.

Super Mario Bros was published in 1985 not 1972 but yeah.

Back in the 90's, video games were new enough that you could forgive the film industry for not being familiar with them. It's been 30 years. They still don't get it.

Craig Mazin never said this at all. The closest source I could find on it is a seemingly bot generated article about a sarcastic tweet that someone made about him.

The showrunner of TLOU was also the head writer for the game.

Things have changed significantly since Super Mario Bros. was released. For example, vast majority of video games released these days feature no senseless violence toward turtles. Many even portray turtles in factual, chilly way! 🐢

Have I been playing Skyrim wrong all this time?

i love how it says 1972 while showing the original super mario bros

I got pretty fed up with always needing change to play Counter Strike.

I guess Zionism is a bold innovation in video game storytelling now.

Edit: putting this here because I know you goddamn morons arent gonna read two comments down:

https://www.reversecanarymission.org/person/neil-druckmann

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-not-so-hidden-israeli-politics-of-the-last-of-us-part-ii/

https://time.com/7275781/the-last-of-us-controversy-israel-gaza/

This isn't even a controversial association, you people have to fucking grow up.

"Druckmann has openly stated that the themes of revenge and cyclical violence in The Last of Us Part II stem from his reaction to the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two Israeli soldiers, where footage of the event filled him with "intense hatred" and a desire to "kill all these people that committed this horrible act" and "make them feel the same pain." He later reflected on feeling "gross and guilty" for these impulses, but used them as the foundation for the game's narrative. Druckmann also draws parallels to Israeli politics, citing the 2011 exchange of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, noting how his father viewed the deal as harmful to Israel overall but would release every prisoner to save his own son. These inspirations manifest in The Last of Us Part II's portrayal of warring factions: the secular, militarized Washington Liberation Front (WLF), equipped with advanced weaponry and resources, mirrors the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) as a "brutal but well-intended" military, while the Seraphites, a religious cult engaging in ritual disembowelment and fanaticism, dehumanizes Palestinians as an extremist threat akin to Hamas."

The Last of Us whas the first game you could play without quarters? I had no idea. That's pretty incredible.

I was listening to a podcast recently, New York Videogames Critics Circle, and they talked about The Last of Us 1 and 2 and Neil Druckman as if it was the first game to ever make the player feel emotions. Like not just that it did so successfully, but that it did it at all.