Interesting article on arcade culture

megalomaniac · Post by **megalomaniac** » February 24th, 2011, 2:04 pm

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/"

Post by **thegreathopper** » February 24th, 2011, 2:34 pm

That is Icycalms site I think.

OtokonoZenyou · Post by **OtokonoZenyou** » February 25th, 2011, 9:59 pm

Good article, always liked his writing style. I haven't read his site in quite awhile till now, I should catch up on it.

Post by **SuperPang** » February 26th, 2011, 12:48 pm

Yeah, that was a good article. Pity he disappeared up his own **** soon afterwards.

Post by **thomj** » February 26th, 2011, 5:05 pm

he's preaching to the converted here but I still wanted to punch him in the eye while reading that

tony starks · Post by **tony starks** » February 27th, 2011, 1:53 pm

Nice read

skykid · Post by **skykid** » February 27th, 2011, 4:23 pm

Lol, quoting Baudrillard as a preface to an article on arcade games, stating arcade games are of a higher quality to console games as though it's fact, overusing the first person to the nth degree, swearing needlessly and throwing all objectionability out the window in favour of impressing a de-facto opinion; and all this in an 'essay' that lacks form, balance, editing, structure and any particular point amongst a mish-mash of self-important waffle.

Other than that it's not bad.

Post by **ChurchOfSolipsism** » March 3rd, 2011, 2:56 pm

Jesus

, that dude has a stick the size of Japan in his ****. Is he too stupid to understand that some people just want to be entertained by video games?

Post by **markedkiller78** » March 3rd, 2011, 3:22 pm

He has a receptive audience though. Anyone that could be arsed to read that (I have btw) will already be in the demographic that laps that **** up.

There are a hell of a lot of crap arcade games out there. All the ones mentioned in the essay (excluding jingi storm & the novelty gun / driving games) would be deemed as AAA titles of their genre. Lets compare DOJ with Brats on DS

I have to agree he needs an editor to cut the **** & to help him figure out what his point is. I think you are bang on the money Tom, but when are you going to write up some more reviews / articles?

anyways…… with all the criticism I do like some of icy’s articles. and there aren’t many people that even bother to write anything up on arcade releases in Japan.

skykid · Post by **skykid** » March 3rd, 2011, 4:46 pm

markedkiller78 wrote: I have to agree he needs an editor to cut the **** & to help him figure out what his point is. I think you are bang on the money Tom, but when are you going to write up some more reviews / articles?

Don't worry, I've got something up my sleeve.

And it's not a rabbit.

Post by **markedkiller78** » March 3rd, 2011, 4:49 pm

skykid wrote:
Don't worry, I've got something up my sleeve.

And it's not a rabbit.

Trouser snake?

megalomaniac · Post by **megalomaniac** » March 3rd, 2011, 6:07 pm

markedkiller78 wrote:
skykid wrote:
Don't worry, I've got something up my sleeve.

And it's not a rabbit.
Trouser snake?

A sleeve's a bit of an odd place to keep a trouser snake

Post by **SuperPang** » March 3rd, 2011, 6:13 pm

Not if it belongs to a Wizard.

skykid · Post by **skykid** » March 3rd, 2011, 7:03 pm

megalomaniac wrote:
markedkiller78 wrote:
skykid wrote:
Don't worry, I've got something up my sleeve.

And it's not a rabbit.
Trouser snake?
A sleeve's a bit of an odd place to keep a trouser snake

I don't think you'd ever shake hands with me again if it was kept in there.

Post by **markedkiller78** » March 3rd, 2011, 7:19 pm

It could be someone else's

skykid · Post by **skykid** » March 4th, 2011, 1:32 am

markedkiller78 wrote:It could be someone else's

BigDeadFreak · Post by **BigDeadFreak** » March 6th, 2011, 12:41 am

Interesting article and really well written.

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