Yeah. That article is an absolutely terrible reflection of the industry. The reality is a criminally unjust distribution of revenue between execs and workers. Like most businesses these days, rich assholes coin it in while workers are paid a comparative pittance.

Yes. An average is absolutely NOT appropriate. It’s like doing a national income average including Musk, Bezos et al. Utter nonsense. However, either way, I will note that as an analyst I often say to people, a sample size of “people I know” is rarely the same as a national statistic.

No. The high end execs running the companies drawing obscene salaries bring up the average by a massive margin. Basically echoes current real world wealth distribution, but as an absolute nonsense average.

Often overlooked. It’s aged a lot but at the time was pretty incredible.

No it’s not. It’s been in for 40 years and the verdict was ZOIDS is brilliant. Far too hard and esoteric for the kiddie gamers of the era, but older and more sophisticated gamers recognized it as the fantastic and innovative game it was.

Not at all. US Gold, Ocean, and Elite never, ever normally put uncaptioned screenshots of the coin-op or 16-bit versions to make the game look better than it was on most versions...

That one was my fave. Bought it from some toy shop in Shrewsbury around that time and really enjoyed putting it together. Had it on my desk for ages.

In between AI and actual writers, there be monkeys.

Scorched earth policy to acquire the most exciting new system sounds like a perfectly reasonable proposition to me!

The delay between Japanese and Euro release dates was absolutely the worst thing. It felt like effin' eons, and I got most stuff before everyone else!

Oh yeah, not really a problem, except the consumer did have to pay for that. Fairly frequent new machines and expensive non-backward-compatible cart games did make gaming extremely expensive back then. But overall I think it was worth it.

Yeah. Generations were also far shorter back then. Rapid tech development made for some exciting times for sure.

So kids can learn the three b’s.

I rate this post 27%. 😁

Yeah, or any major seaside destination. Some of the best arcades back then could be found along UK’s coasts (Brighton, Blackpool, Great Yarmouth, etc).