Why did games back then feature masculine men?
>>740304610masculinity and heterosexuality weren't vilified back then like they are now
>>740304610Schwarzenegger
I love Contra! Just pop it in and have 15 minutes of fun. Did another no-hit run recently. Such a classic...
>>740304732So you're saying everything is gay now
>>740304610It was a chuddish time.
>>740304610Because Americans were afraid of cute girls
>>740304826what shmup clears do you have? how does it compare in difficulty to some other run n guns and shmups
The Japanese didn’t take games very seriously, they copied American advertising material or movies without any shame because they developed each piece of software in two or three months and then moved on to the next one. No one had any illusions that those games would stand the test of time or become culturally significant.In fact, even today, many of the Japanese pioneers don’t realize that their creations have fans all over the world, a fact highlighted in that book about the untold story of Japanese developers, where everyone is amazed to learn that the software they created with almost no thought behind it was able to win over so many foreign fans.
>>740306108They took game design seriously and were hardcore gamers. They just didn't care about cosmetics, that's why their gfx have soul
>>740304610hard times lead to hard menhard men lead to better timesbetter times lead to better men
>>740305190do I have to say it?
