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After spinning off into a trading card game, a TV show, multiple movies, lines of toys, and more games, it became a staple in youth culture. As documented by Kurt Squire, in his article, ' Video Games in Education', he had noted that Pokémon had developed from just a simple video game to a cultural phenomena. Other examples in today's culture are how video games shape our culture into what it is today, such as Pokémon, when it was introduced in the nineties, it started out as three games, Pokémon Red, Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Yellow. This gives a setup to a whole new culture. It sprang from consoles and arcade games, to online-gaming and virtual reality. But over that 30-year span, approximately 7 generations of video games have been created. It is also to the point that Pokémon even has it's own month dedicated to it throughout the year. Other examples include Pokémon, which became the most popular children's toy in 1999, and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog in 1992, and the titular character becoming a mascot, these franchises have served as not only mascots, but also popular culture icons, every kid who grew up in the nineties has at least heard of them. Notably in 1981, with Nintendo's masterpiece, Donkey Kong, and not only the introduction of the titular character, but the protagonist, Mario, who would become the mascot of Nintendo for years to come. Starting with classic games like Pong in 1972 and Space Invaders in 1978, which kick started a cultural revolution. 'They released a deluxe edition for the newer system,' I explained, leading to our lengthy, highly technical discussion of Mario Kart 8 for Wii U vs.Our culture has been influenced by video games for more than 30 years.

He let out a sound like a deeply satisfied bear. I watched Farfar peel back the paper one his unauthorized second present and nod to himself. Plus,' I said, tossing a second present onto Farfar's lap and picking up his blue Wii remote from the coffee table, strumming the rubber bands holding the battery cover in place with my thumb. Nintendo's already moved on to newer systems. 'Don't we already have a Wii?' Then, more concerned, 'How much did you spend on this?' “What is the Wii U, Gubben?' Farfar said, unable to keep the grin off his face as he balled the wrapping paper in his hands and stared at the box in his lap. ('Incident On A Rainy Night In Beverly Hills')” then try to tell me the target demographic audience isn't waiting for marching orders.

If you don't believe that, just check out last year's big hit movies. Our own guinea pigs pay us money to keep the mechanisms grinding away. They want to kill the enemy, tear his heart out, go to war so their gas bills will go down! They're all primed for just that sort of denouemment, ti satisfy their need for linear storytelling in the fictions that have become their lives! The system perpetuates itself. We've conditioned a whole population to live on the rim of Apocalypse and love it. It's simple to make our audiences slaver for blood that past hasn't changed since the days of the Colosseum. Jesus, Jonathan, can you *see* what we've accomplished? In something under half a decade we've programmed an entire generation of warm bodies to go to war for us and love it. The year after that we phased in the video games, experimenting with non-narcotic hypnosis, using electrical pulses, body capacitance, and keying the pleasure centers of the brain with low voltage shocks. 'Six months afterward we ripped ourselves off and got secondary reinforcement onto television. said Jonathan, his mouth stalling the open position. The fact that it grossed more money than any film in history at the time proved how on target our approach was.'

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The movie we came up with stroked all the correct psychological triggers. Our drugs conditioned them to repeat viewings, simultaneously serving the ends of profit and positive reinforcement. It turned out that audiences in the 1970s were more receptive to the sort of things they scoffed at as juvenilia in the 1930s. Inside one of the Scripter offices there was an old copy of Doc Smith's first LENSMAN space opera. Boiled down, our objective was to make killing and military life seem like adventurous fun, so for our inspiration we went back to the Thirties as well. The period just prior to our last 'good' war. “The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed allusions to the 1930s.

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