EPTnot so awesome though, the logo looked like a swastika at a first quick glance
Before ESPORTS: US National Video Game Team - Page 3
| Blogs > heyoka |
euroboy
Sweden536 Posts
not so awesome though, the logo looked like a swastika at a first quick glance | ||
|
mordek
United States12704 Posts
| ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
On July 26 2011 19:09 xtfftc wrote: Great read. The very last sentence was a bit harsh though as the article didn't focus on what it is exactly that they ended up doing. I wouldn't bet against them still being avid gamers, albeit amateurs. Most of these guys have been on documentaries over the years, its a mixed bag. A lot of them look on the past fondly but don't have much interest in current games, I get the feeling the majority of them feel like games lost something once gaming culture stopped revolving around arcades. At least a few of them are still avid gamers of course, I think Steve Harris is probably still hanging around the industry. On July 26 2011 23:22 P00RKID wrote: It would be cool to get an interview with Walter Day about current E-sports. He could probably relate to games like street fighter or other good competitive arcade games. Talking to Walter would be pretty interesting. I've spoken to a few people involved with competitive arcade scores and have been really turned off by their world, a lot of them view competition as man vs machine and don't give any credibility to fights that are man vs man. Its really weird, a lot of them refuse to give any legitimacy to what we do here at TL (despite us being a far larger community). Maybe I've spoken to the wrong people though, I suspect Walter specifically is super passionate about the same things we are. On July 26 2011 23:38 ProxyKnoxy wrote: On Wikipedia it says the US National Team accepted members in 1994 and 2005? :/ Wait holy crap there is a lot of history here: Todd Rogers the first ever paid programer? Played a game for over 85 hours... thanks for the blog  I'm not clear on what the deal is with that wiki page, it has gone through a few major revisions and the source links died when TG redesigned the site. I assumed those members were kind of an honorary thing as the team certainly didn't exist as an entity by 2005. Todd Rogers is a pretty cool story though that guy is a beast, serious bonjwa of his era. He beat a machine that was designed to play an atari 2600 game perfectly. On July 27 2011 01:22 t0bs3n wrote: First of all nice write-up However I am puzzled about the following "now that we are facing ESPORTS growth in the west". Yeah it has existed before but now that streaming is so easy it is growing considerably faster and reaching a far wider audience than any of those examples. | ||
|
FuDDx
United States5003 Posts
Give 5 stars everyone!!! or more | ||
|
GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
A: All three dudes looked totally like stereotypical nerds and B: Most of the people in the crowd were old people XD | ||
|
moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
| ||
|
QuanticHawk
United States32021 Posts
| ||
|
Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
That MTV Life video did not help either =( Maybe I'm only having these thoughts because E-Sports as a whole isn't exactly mainstream yet. | ||
|
AirbladeOrange
United States2571 Posts
I think it's strange how especially back in the day people were supposed to be impressed based on how many points someone achieved in a game. The numbers are arbitrary, varying so much game to game. Regardless, this is an awesome blog! Informative and well-written. Thanks for sharing. | ||
|
AGsc
Canada120 Posts
| ||
|
p T r
United States94 Posts
thanks for this! | ||
|
HEROwithNOlegacy
United States850 Posts
| ||
|
Xiphos
Canada7507 Posts
| ||
| ||
