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Subject: When did gaming become "cool"?

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I'm stuck between when gamers used to be considered as nerds locked in their basement with no light and a little T.V. screen, to when families and kids all became involved.

Which company started this conversion?

[Edited on 12.17.2012 6:58 AM PST]

  • 12.17.2012 6:51 AM PDT

When the Playstation came out with games like Grand Theft Auto.

  • 12.17.2012 6:52 AM PDT
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I like Cheese

Activision,Microsoft,Sony and Nintendo.

  • 12.17.2012 6:52 AM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

When the mass populace recognized the potential entertainment.

  • 12.17.2012 6:55 AM PDT

Fhtagn

Nintendo with the wii, mostly.

  • 12.17.2012 6:56 AM PDT

when the retarded 12 yr olds started playing CoD

  • 12.17.2012 6:57 AM PDT

Hey there!

It´s all about Fifa and CoD.

  • 12.17.2012 7:15 AM PDT

when storylines were bastardised to compensate for the boneheads who couldn't understand such a decent and intricate story like Metal Gear Solid's

  • 12.17.2012 7:17 AM PDT

http://www.capturemyhaloclips.com/ - Get your Halo clips captured.
The Artists Corner - Show other members your artistic talent.
Storywrite - Where I am writing my book.

When did gaming become cool? When the chav's multiplied.

  • 12.17.2012 7:24 AM PDT

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
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"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
-G-Man

When "less nerdy" games started to pop up here and there.

I'm now going to punch myself in the face for using the word "nerdy."

  • 12.17.2012 7:26 AM PDT

Nintendo.

  • 12.17.2012 7:27 AM PDT

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cold or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out"
- Bill Hicks

It hasn't. It's just no longer solely associated with socially inept losers living in the parents' basement.

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  • 12.17.2012 7:27 AM PDT

Break the windowsill

Pretty much started around fifth and sixth generations

  • 12.17.2012 7:28 AM PDT

Muffins are just ugly cupcakes

Same time internet became normal.

  • 12.17.2012 7:31 AM PDT

ROFLCOPTER

Mario.

That is all.

  • 12.17.2012 7:40 AM PDT

When people were introduced to Halo.

  • 12.17.2012 7:42 AM PDT
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better question: when did pokemon become cool?

  • 12.17.2012 7:50 AM PDT

When Super Mario Bros 3 was released!

  • 12.17.2012 7:54 AM PDT
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Steam

I thought gaming is always considered as "cool".

  • 12.17.2012 7:59 AM PDT
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I never cared what others think about my gaming behaviour.

  • 12.17.2012 8:29 AM PDT

Major props to my hommie Sheeef. He made Recon possible for me. Long time recovering emails and passwords. And it was his. lol.

It's all about the aging popularity and tech world.

  • 12.17.2012 8:32 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

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When Madden was released.

It's sad but true. That's the game that brought everyone else to the party.

  • 12.17.2012 8:32 AM PDT