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ego got in the way, and the rules of games got maimed beyond any point of recognition.

miyamoto is obsessed with automatons, engines and mechanical movement; tezuka with smiley faces on inanimate objects. ea tried to make rockstars out of developers, atari did the same in a less deliberate manner. now will wright is a scam artist, and people believed inafune was the father of a sprite. phil fish was consumed by his own ego, and games are sold like movies, a totally non-interactive and static medium.

it all became magic circle bullshit. superficially agents in a system of multiple choices. we let words like 'winstate', 'game feel' and 'ludonarrative dissonance' enter the discussion and totally forgot video games are the marriage of miniaturization of pool tables and computers. somehow, now the history of video games starts at pong, totally forgetting what we're trying to achieve with pong.
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