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11 Jun 2025 Conversations with Tyler Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
“I want to be at the point where I can make a video about Space Invaders or Pac-Man and have it get a million, 2 million, 5 million views, and have it change the way we think about those because those games are beautiful.”
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- 11 Jun 2025
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…Then you press hyperspace, right? That was the key decision. When do you press hyperspace? All of those games. Here’s a new goal. Put this on the record. I want to be at the point where I can make a video about Space Invaders or Pac-Man and have it get a million, 2 million, 5 million views, and have it change the way we think about those because those games are beautiful. They’re underappreciated. They’re impactful. They’re meaningful. They tell us about ourselves, and they do it with a hundred lines of code or whatever it is. It’s crazy. I liked Space Invaders much more than Pac-Man. Something about Pac-Man bothered me. It felt too mechanical and not strange enough.…
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