@typhlosion im video neutral game eldritch
@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
@typhlosion ok i do have one question though.
What is Karaoke?
@starkatt good question
@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.
@zebratron2084 I'm mighty interested!
@typhlosion video purist, game anarch (or eldritch, don't know what progressquest is)
@cobaltshroom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest
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.
@typhlosion By the way, Video Purist, Game Eldritch . . .
y'all i posted this on twitter too, and,