Ralph Baer invented home video games from his workshop in Manchester, New Hampshire - and now the city is honoring this gaming pioneer with a "Baer Square," complete with a statue, in a city park.
So if progress is to be believed, blowing up asteroids or getting a frog across a busy stretch of road is a poorer, less mature video gaming experience than chasing a virtual Tom Arnold around the Playboy Mansion.
Speed run videos are useful for us to relive our favorite games without having to dig out the old systems and actually play. (Honestly, what chance are you, thirtysomething, going to have these days when Bald Bull starts his charge?)