The Attitude Era of gaming with explosive blood and guts, the fuck word and titties. The Anti-Sarkeesian, where power fantasies were okay, women were used as a reward for Link and Mario, and gamers (of both genders) just had fun with it, because it was a game, first and foremost, and not a sobering commentary of the social woes and injustices of our terrible, awful (much, much better than a hundred years ago) world. Where gaming reviews judged the product on how it played, and not who played it. Where reviews had a score from 1-10 at the end because we weren't concerned about the fragility of the reader if our score didn't match up with theirs. No tweets about the newest sequel being "The Schindler's List," of videogames, but tons of demo discs and 30 second adverts slamming the competition. The era of mascots, and not token representation. Seems pretty short lived to me, bruh.
