[HN Gopher] The Legend of GayBlade
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The Legend of GayBlade
Author : polm23
Score : 91 points
Date : 2020-08-29 05:08 UTC (1 days ago)
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| leeoniya wrote:
| wonder if this was an inspiration for
|
| https://drawntogether.fandom.com/wiki/Xandir
| jonny_eh wrote:
| As mentioned in the article, this was covered in the Netflix doc
| series High Score (episode 3):
| https://www.netflix.com/title/81019087
| skc wrote:
| Yes, found that docu-series highly frustrating because they
| left out so much.
|
| But I suppose there was only so much time.
| Nacdor wrote:
| It never claimed to be an exhaustive history of the video
| game industry so I'm not sure why so many people levy this
| criticism against it. It reminds me of the G4 show called
| Icons, with each episode covering a specific game, developer
| or piece of gaming hardware.
|
| I thought it did a great job of covering the topics that were
| chosen. It wasn't quite as good as The Toys That Made Us but
| it was still very enjoyable if you're into video games and I
| really hope they're making another season.
| userbinator wrote:
| I thought this would be related to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade , but actually predates
| that by a few years.
| bap wrote:
| Perhaps this:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorro,_The_Gay_Blade
| valuearb wrote:
| Is this Gaytekeeping?
|
| " One thing to say though, is that perhaps you should be careful
| to have an accurate historical record? Queer theory did not exist
| until ~mid 1990s, so perhaps none of these games are LGBTQIA+ --
| they're Gay and Lesbian works."
| Lammy wrote:
| See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper_in_the_Castro
| prvc wrote:
| Feels like a submarine ad for Netflix.
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