@rezzish @typhlosion mmmm i'm video purist game eldritch personally, but only because i don't want to allow furbies to be video games

@lunalapin @typhlosion that's valid, i've honestly got a big asterisk connected to the video neutral part

@starkatt legit this is an amazing question, you're making me have a crisis of faith

@typhlosion @starkatt according to a strict reading of this chart, i think it is video neutral / game neutral

@typhlosion @starkatt although i suppose not all karaoke includes a lyrics display?

@typhlosion I question characterizing Hercules as a pinball table or really any form of entertainment.

@Austin_Dern i cannot articulate how glad i am that someone spotted hercules

@Austin_Dern @typhlosion Haha, true, but it's SUCH a fundamental part of my formative family vacation memories...

@zebratron2084 @typhlosion I played one that had strong enough flippers and bumpers that it was actually tolerably fun-ish, at the Pinball Wizard Arcade in New Hampshire. Sad to say that place closed in 2016(L) and and I don't know what happened to the table.

Also saw one at Canobie Lake Park, in New Hampshire, the rare amusement park with a *great* pinball lineup. Several dozen machines, 70s-to-present, and all a quarter a play. Sadly, the Hercules was one of two games out of order.

@Austin_Dern God, you're making me miss the Mystic Krewe of the Silver Ball's pinball church down here. Another post-COVID pleasure on the waiting list... We gotta at LEAST get you photos of the interior.

@typhlosion video purist, game anarch (or eldritch, don't know what progressquest is)

@cobaltshroom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress

probably the first zero-player video game! it's a pastiche of old grindy rpgs; you have zero interaction after making the character. arguably the great-grandpappy of incremental games like cookie clicker

@typhlosion now you just gotta make another one of these for "which video game proves that video games are art (because roger ebert is wrong)"

@Resni iirc ebert turned around on that later in life, i think it was cosmology of kyoto that softened him to it

@typhlosion it didn't stop gamers from being irrationally mad about it for like 20 years x3

oh yeah I saw that game and heard about how he liked it, it looked quite unique!

re: video game eldritch chart 

@typhlosion Avalon Hill's "Dispatcher" (1958) is a videogame, but very poorly optimized for running on its intended hardware (the boardgamer playing it)

- Packbat 🎒

@typhlosion In all fairness, this simply implies Mastodon listens better.

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