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Aside from Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero, what other era-specific gaming fads can you think of (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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I specifically mean games or series that featured some kind of niche subculture/activity/lifestyle that appealed to teens and young adults as opposed to ones that were just fads among kids like Pokemon in the 90s or toys-to-life games in the 2010s or just generally popular games

DDR (no, not that one) probably counts as one, though that might've been mostly confined to Japanese arcades

Does this sort of thing even happen anymore? I assume these days youngins just play Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone or whatever else instead of extreme sports or rhythm games

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

pubg wasn't the first battle royale game but it was the first one where 100 people jump out of a plane worked well enough and that created the cultural moment that catapulted fortnite's free BR mode into a position to funkopopify itself into the juggernaut we know and loathe today.

there were a ton of companies scrambling to shit out battle royale games after 2017 but they're pretty much all dead as of a couple years ago. Both actually out of business and adding bots to keep up the façade of a full lobby.