Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Re: Great Moments in Games Journalism

[quote name="Noi Dau Don"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]In a post-Digg world, the URL is usually enough to look at, but I thought - wow. Years after Alexey Pajitnov released Tetris, someone decided to write an article about the engine that selects the next block. Maybe it's just random, and sort of uninteresting, but was the same routine used for the arcade, Spectrum Holobyte and Gameboy versions? Did they differ at all? This is going to be a great article. Yeah, it's actually a link to a skit from CollegeHumor.com. [/quote] There's a term, 'sodadism', which is nostalgia for a future that never was (i.e. flying cars, robot hookers, she comes crawling back) - something like that. There needs to be a technical term for this similar thing that happened here in Jonseytown: where you write in a history of a seen thing only to find that what you invented is much more interesting and desirable than what actually is. I open the competition with: <i>beckism</i>.[/quote]