A wonderful quote from a kid at the dig too young to understand:
"It's one of those weird monumental video game based events that only comes around once a century."
Once a century? Once ever. Never again will the perfect storm, the perfect culmination of a cartridge based video game phenomena of epic proportions ever happen like that again... ever.
1. Technology has surpassed physical media... it's all drm's now baby.
2. No physical media means no glut of over-production even possible. No physical item to bury for future generations to unearth.
3. No synergy with blockbuster cinematic experience on the order of tens of millions of dollars being put into the lap of 1... ONE... video game maker. Designer/developer/artist/sound/coder all wrapped up into one guy... ONE! To make every decision about how the game will play, good or bad.
4. True or false, the culmination of the above to romanticize the magnitude of the fill, the failure, the single entity, the myth of ET.
That was a singularity... a big bang. Epic. There will be no such similar archaeologic possibilities in this or any other future century... or millennia!
IF there is a future archaeologic video game dig... it will be at a keyboard scrolling through lost code. No bull dozers, no audience, no camera crews, no "event" of physical proportions... just eyeballs looking at historic code stored in media and forgotten. This, young observer, was a once in forever event.
I loved the documentary.
Edited by Gatinho (04/28/15 04:20 AM)
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