I know that the title seems a bit, ‘click-baity’, and that is because it is, but I have touched on this previously in one of my videos. (Links below)

To explain this I am going to have to take you back to the beginnings of video games.

WIBBLY WOBBLY WIBBLY WOBBLY. Look this sort of effect works better in video okay?

Back in the early days, platform games revolved around completing a task in one room before you could move onto the next room, sort of like an 8 bit escape room. You had a reward for finishing the task, saving your significant other, escaping and so on.

As video games became more advanced, and also moved away from the arcades, it was necessary for them to become longer and have more chances to explore. Taking money out of your pocket and getting you to jam in it in a slot may have psychological manifestations but if you want to make that connection feel free. I don’t want to think about ramming things into your Mum’s slot.

Not again.

So games had to offer more, along came the side scrolling platforms like the aforementioned Sonic and Mario. (Yes, I know that the first Mario games weren’t wahwahwah Nintendo Fans.)

In these games, particularly Sonic, the idea of the game is to race from the start point on the left and to lurch towards the far right as quickly as possible. This has made it seem the norm to a lot of gamers growing up that being on the left was a starting position and that they had to accept fascist ideology as quickly as possible. Do not think about it, just accept hate and oppression as a way forward.

I mean, I am no specialist in this area, being as I am made of material, but I think we can all agree that this makes as much sense as the other cobblers that have been written about computer games over the years.

I have been playing computer games since the ‘70s and I haven’t got on a spree.*

Yet. I suppose there is still time.

*The only sort of sprees that you seem to be able to go on are murdering and shopping. What does that say about our societal opinions of both? Hmm?

Video is below, should you wish to watch it. Don’t worry, no one else has.