Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."
Anita was one of the first bringing actual literary analysis to video games, treating them like art instead of toys, and the reaction was the most obscene backlash that's occurred since Reagan got elected. Since then a lot more people have been analyzing video games from a lot more points of view (one of my favs is Jacob Geller), but any time a boomer like Roger Ebert talks shit on video games now part of me remembers gamergate and thinks "yeah, you got a point."