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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915

As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s only because in the West there was no way for the game to reach customers at the time. The game was popular in the “Soviet Block” just fine, because distribution model was different.

Today, it would spread through internet like fire.