Video games are a strictly american-capitalist phenomenon, as only your highly deregulated stock market invites culture to normalize its excess. When Capitalism dies, normies will hold each other down any time someone wants to "be special" or "be rich", and the same applies to making a vidya company that sells to millions of people for millions of dollars. In the end, video game's detrimental effects, addictions, and excessive fandom only happened because the normalcy of capitalism in the US was strong enough to infect countries around the world, and accept that something bad had become popular.

Having grown up in a nordic country, video games have been hated all my life, but it was okay for kids to play Gameboys in early school. As soon as we aged up slightly, you either played GTA or Counter Strike, or WoW. Anything else was seen as too nerdy and weird, but I've gotten the impression that americans had more widespread acceptance of video games, and that has only carried through thanks to internet anonymity.

Frognigger retard kill yourself

Everything is American. If America would collapse right now, everyone else will instantly go back to the dark ages.

>>715972409 (OP)
Tetris directly proves you wrong, as do freeware games, mods, romhacks, fan translation and all the other stuff do out of passion instead of money.