Could gaming culture not become mainstream?

So I would like to know, do you think that video game culture could not become mainstream as it is now if the internet didin't exist? Could people that play video games still be considered a minority? What do you think?
 
Yes still mainstream PS1 no internet\PS2 no internet

this means parents wouldn't have to worry about multiplayer and all the language on it. There really are some creeps on their.

Story content and graphics would be more important to sell new games.
This also means no DLC and it could also mean no pre-order bonus.

AlSO it will take longer for game development because companies don't have the liberty of posting patches over their games.
 
It would still spread by word of mouth. Without the internet, gaming urban legends would still make certain games more popular (for example, Pokémon Red & Blue's urban legends actually made got people to replay them using the tiresome methods; i.e. beating the Elite Four 50,000 times to battle Tricket or whatecer).
 
I always had this maybe controversial view that it's SONY's entrance in the market who changed it all, for bad and good aspects both.

There was differences in the market before and after SONY's PSI... I remember well the heighdays of Nintendo, Sega - another world, still a bit amateurish, teenagey in aspects, gamers-first driven...

With Sony came a first - a non games only corporation investing much money in a gamble to seize the new gen, with a different mindset and MUCH bigger pockets for also different ads campaigns, aiming at an aging gamers group, and non gamers pop stuff etc.,..

With Sony came a different coolness. It was ok for older guys, adults now, to play, there was ads aimed straight at them, etc...

if Sony had not stepped in, things may have went very different, quite later mainstreaming maybe.




Also 33k7, those days before where not so black and white, 'better in the past'... there was darker, bad sides we often forget, on how there was still mass of cruds before, amateurism, etc.
Those days are not to be looked back so idealised - we were there, we remember both the good and bad.
 
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Get a couple of high body count school killings in the 90s by killers who explicitly state they were inspired by video games, then turn Tipper Gore loose. Shoot, Hillary pursued a violent video game ban IOTL, they can team up. With a wide definition of violence, the video game world is never populated by a character saltier than Mario. It's not profitable enough for Microsoft to invest in their own console, and the whole area stays an infantilized cultural backwater to this day.
This is my question. What type of "culture" are we talking about here? Does it have its own cuisine?
Doritos Locos Tacos.
 
It's completely self-explanatory. If you know what the word gaming means, and what the word culture means, but can't figure out what "gaming culture" means, nobody can help you.

Seems to me like it's a failure to understand what "culture" means. (Although subulture or co-culture would more acurately describe it.)

Anaxagoras, please tell me what the identifiable cuisines for biker, deaf, nudists, and punk subcultures are.
 
It's completely self-explanatory. If you know what the word gaming means, and what the word culture means, but can't figure out what "gaming culture" means, nobody can help you.

I honestly don't know what gaming culture is. I play video games so I suppose that is "gaming" yet I didn't know I was part of a culture let alone one that was so well known that it had become mainstream.
 
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