I have mixed circles of friends and associates as many of you have guessed. Left leaning gaming Historians are talking about all the archives they have of GamerGate and studying it to prove how evil it was. One bragged about having over 5TB of files.
They all talked about how it was destroyed and the leadership was in jail for rape and stuff. I get the feeling more papers from those types is incoming.
On of the things I loved about the Galaxies Edge series was they treated historians like the cheap academic tower whores they are in reality.
I don't think the bigger names even care right now, but some of the people who only have this as their life are doing it. So, yeah.
Bigger names already have status, it’s the graspers who will lie fervently to gain it. Its like Jefferson banging black slaves, there’s no actual evidence, but it’ll sell a book and give a lecture series somewhere.
It's mostly arcade historians. The ones convinced that arcades only existed between 75 and 03. By coincidence that's when they were kids. Also, that seems to be the narrative by the console people. In their promotions Consoles beat Arcades and that was it. Also, PC Gaming started with Doom and there is no mention of the Commodore 64 or even Atari 800 XL. They'll walk through conventions that prove their narrative is wrong, but it will be ignored.
So, perfect for lefty material.
That’s why most “history” changes with each new generation, like most social sciences.
Or people who bring up the 1983 North American Video Game Crash and act as though it was this catastrophic event that nearly ended gaming completely, especially on YouTube.
Yes, it was a catastrophic event in the history of gaming... in NORTH AMERICA.
The rest of the world continued on their merry way. Europe had the C64, Amiga, CPC and SG1000. Japan had the Epoch Cassette Vision, Famicom and Turbografx 16.