When did you start noticing normies liking video games?

Since arcades were a thing

I got hired at this private school to teach game dev to kids with dumb programs and what not, sometimes a random kid spouts some kinda interesting thing like "I like MegaMan games" and I gotta try my hardest not to go into full autism mode and talk about vidya facts all day. Gotta keep the respect of the class you know. I think it's neat, games shouldn't be niche stuff

When the Wii came out.

When ff7 came out and every rando I knew loved it. I liked it too but it just opened up the flood gates.

>games shouldn't be niche stuff
yes they should. lack of gatekeeping is what ruined this hobby.

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I am a normie, so i wouldn't know

The PS2 and, to a lesser extent but still impactful, Xbox original, spearheaded by Madden, NBA Live, and GTA III/VC/SA.

this video explained it best to me OP
youtube.com/watch?v=453wgsWT5Ao

You're a fucking liar and this idea is so fucking dumb since arcades were a thing for two decades. At best you were seen as childish like people reading comic books and it was assumed you wouldn't sperg out about Tifa's titties in polite conversation.

right when san andreas dropped, literally had half the neighborhood lined up to play it at my house

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Yeah, around other losers maybe

normies have always liked video games

>normies
Way to out yourself.

92ish

In my country, you were laughed at and bullied for playing video games and that didn't change until the early 2010s, maybe late 2000s. I'm not exaggerating.
The only exceptions were über normie shit like FIFA or GTA.

First of all fippybippy. And like said it depends on the country. Here videogames weren't truly mainstream until League of Legends became ultra popular.

I’ll never forget my first gf asking me about the games I liked when the subject first came up, and I said battlefield and whatever else and then she said in a disgusted tone and contorted face... oh... you play those kinds of games....
Also in gym class some guy asked what I was doing after school and as I hesitated he said you’re not one of those kids that just stays in his room all day and plays games are you? Uhhhhhhhhh.... no...
this was 2002ish

Gatekeeping something like video games is impossible.

you want an specific date?

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Don't bother user, there's retards that still think gatekeeping works. There's nothing we could do, it was just a matter of time.

Anyone who thinks games were fucking niche in the 2000's is either a zoomer or late millenial.

When I was dating someone in highschool in 2004 she was appaled that I got a copy of pokemon emerald and the RE4 chainsaw controller. She was a stupid bitch though and it was funny to blow air in her pussy when she was sitting on my face and it would come out as funny sounds

Sucks for me all I got was a kiss. And a broken heart :’^(

Gatekeeping works in hobbies that aren't solely owned by companies. You can't gatekeep this hobby because it is 100% for profit and made by companies that put millions into games and expect millions in return. Any attempt to gatekeep will be thwarted by these companies who have zero reason to want less money.

Probably around then yeah. When WoW launched.

Normalniggers are extremely social creatures and they only really started playing more vidya when online multiplayer was made easily accessible on consoles. I know a few of them who refuse to play a game if it's not an online multiplayer game. They don't really like videogames that much, they just use them for social interactions. You can know if someone really likes vidya by knowing if they like single player games.

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This
Pretty much. Sharing my childhood vidya stories with teens today makes me not just feel like a grandpa but like I'm just flat out making shit up

1985.

>you’re not one of those kids that just stays in his room all day and plays games are you?
Any well adjusted person knows that the only person who would ask this in this way stays in his own room and plays video games all day. His disgust was at himself.

Normies liked video games so much when Pac-man came out at filk songs written about it were number one jams of the summer, fucking eternal septem-nigger

Since videogames came out

It wasn't until probably 2011 or later that I actually noticed it around me. Logically I know it must have been earlier, but I absolutely never saw it among the normalfags while I was in school.