PGC 2020 Sessions @ PGC LONDON - Oscar Clark
summary
A concise history claims that gaming addiction evolves through specific platform shifts: 1978 arcade boom (quarters and Donkey Kong), 1989 Tetris global spread, the Quake LAN/social era and 2001 Dreamcast milestone, Java and PlayStation Home communities, then 2008 iPhone which “perfects” mobile games and turns them into a multi‑billion dollar industry. Evidence is an ordered timeline, named platforms and phenomena like cake farms and delivery systems; the claim is that smartphones scaled addictive mechanics successfully and changed the ecosystem.
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