Very soon there won’t be a generation that can remember video games not existing.

In the near future retirement homes may still have knitting activities, but they’ll also have LAN parties with Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Age of Empires, Quake tournaments. All of this along with classic 80s arcade games. We’ll be eating in the dining hall listening to the demo sounds of Dig Dug or Ms Pacman playing softly in the background.

Then 15-20 years later, those same glorious halls will echo with the sound of the Halo.

The reverberated utterances of DOUBLEKILL cascading into a TRIPLEKILL, or god bless it an OVERKILL. Our geriatric eyes darting across the screen during a round of swat trying to get that beautiful bullet sway of a perfectly swiped Battle Rifle shot.

Mountain Dew coursing through our ancient and dilapidated bodies. Obliterating the convenient, split screen mayhem, the MLG generation.

Power to the fucking players baby.