I'm in my late thirties. Played a lot of video games when I was a kid through college and a little after. But this whole idea of there being a "gaming culture" or how being a "gamer" is a major part of peoples' personalities just seems weird to me. Not even a complaint, just an observation.
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These are not the article I originally found. They're not nearly as good. If I can find the original article that gave the specific details and even showed examples of pre-and-post dudebro marketing focusing in the 80s, I will link that later.
https://uwm.edu/news/book-excerpt-pac-man-lured-women-video-game-arcades/
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/12/female-gamers-and-masculine-marketers-polygon-s-history-of-the-sexist-selling-of-video-games.html
Thanks!