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A love letter to that one time James Bond battled the villain in a crappy arcade game instead of at cards
A love letter to that one time James Bond battled the villain in a crappy arcade game instead of at cards.
But, really: that moment of channel-hopping and catching the smirking visage of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, or Pierce Brosnan as a bit of late-night terrestrial TV filler is as British as fish and chips, potholes, and needing to do a blood sacrifice for his majesty’s government in order to send a DM on social media. It envisions a world in which arcade games are to become the sort of thing that the sophisticated upper echelon of society might gather and experience just as they might roulette.You can imagine how this conclusion genuinely didn’t seem so far fetched in 1982/3, before the great crash. In the modern context, there’s something wonderfully mad about these people in diamonds and pearls huddled around Centipede and Dig Dug cabinets, and then gathering around to watch Bond and Largo play some digital nonsense for a quarter of a million dollars cash.
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