First, we had arcade machines. Drop a coin in the slot, press the ‘1P’ button – a few seconds’ worth of hassle combined – and go. Then came cartridges. Slide one in and flip the power switch: bingo. Given these foundations, it’s hard to imagine how we ever made it through the Dark Age of cassette-based storage, huddled over devices that would take six minutes to wheeze a game’s worth data into the 8bit computers of old. Six minutes! That’s a good round of Drop7 right there. Never again, we swore as we moved on to disks, then carts again, then discs, and beyond. Today, we want everything now. Shut up with your Kickstarter pitch, take our money, and hurry the hell up with delivering the goods. The gameplaying public…
