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A 31 year old game I feel qualifies as "old". What is old, then, pong on an oscilloscope? :p


Sure, Moon Lander. Original Sprint. The dragster one. 31 years ago was at about the end of the Golden Age of video games.


The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.


Ha ha, I get your point, but the GAoVG is a specific era, roughly 1979-1985. :)


Wikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_gam...

Restricting to arcade games is probably justified. I'd say we are in the golden age of video games right now---at least in terms of popularity. And you can still get remakes of all the good old games, or even play the originals.


Well, there was a first golden age, which was followed by nintendo and the street fighter era, and so on. That's fine you want to make up new Golden Ages -- more good attention to video games the better -- but be sure people aren't thinking of the earlymid 80s when you use the term for other purposes.




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