I suspect that Foner, while trying to expand the context, and speculate about what might have been, is engaging in the consoling pathos of counterfactualism rather than engaging the inexorability of what happened.
Mortal Kombat had ushered in an era of exploitation games, both on consoles and in arcades, all engaging in a battle to see who can cram the most blood and guts onto a low-res screen".
To keep VR gamers and console gamers engaged, PlayStation will be offering local multiplayer thanks to what they call a "Social Screen".
The console industry is used to acting like a car showroom, developing specific pieces of beautiful game content and then engaging in a large sales push toward success.
As they teamed up, using separate consoles to take on the forces of evil in popular shoot-em games like Strike Force, Starcraft and Mu, some of them could be said to be engaging in group activity, but just barely.
Groups of gamers can head off and engage with a multiplayer PlayStation 3 console game together.
Today there are 132 million teen and adult gamers in the U.S., where nearly half of all households have a game console; marketers are desperate to engage this well-to-do audience.
While AAA console games can keep users engaged for months on end, mobile games almost always see a significant drop in users after day one.
