I've taken issue with the way games are presented in plenty of shows before. For one, even if they actually show gameplay from an actual game, they replace the sounds with arcade style beeps and bloops that were only appropriate maybe 30 years ago.

So I was watching a room redesign show as I often do and the husband of the couple who was getting a redesign was a game developer. The design lady made some off hand remark and I tried to just ignore it.

But then... before the commercials they had a skit. Two of the crew had black-framed glasses held together with gobs of scotch tape. They were jerking around violently while holding single-button joysticks while whatever was supposed to be in front of them flashed and made ridiculous sounds. Meanwhile, other crew members came in acting the part of the pregnant wife saying the baby is on the way and the two playing gamers were dismissive and said after this level or something similar.



With game approaching photo-realism, having deep plots, covering mature topics sometimes even in mature ways and the fact that the gaming industry is absolutely massive now (larger than the music industry and not far behind movies)... why the ridiculous and archaic stereotypes?