You are correct.
I might have seen that episode before; I'm not sure. I should watch it at the official site and edit this post.
Edit: Saw the episode, had not seen it yet. Wow, they hit it right on the nail. Heck, I think they could have gone even further. I think they could have made another full-length feature.
San Francisco, to be honest, is a gorgeous-looking city. However, that's the only good thing I can say about it. Well, that and me being a longtime San Francisco 49ers fan.
Very good episode, but the one attacking Disney (The Ring) that they made in 2009 is still the funniest one I've seen.
Last edited by ConsoleAddict; 04-30-2010 at 05:42 PM.
Then I guess if you're from a small town, you must be a hick, right? Because every person that lives in any given city is exactly the same and stereotypes are always true, right?
Anyway, great job insulting everyone on the board that has ever lived in that area (I'm not one of them, by the way), I'm sure that'll help ensure a long stay.
And I don't buy that they all "hail" from San Francisco. Just because a company is there and the employees have to live near there to work, it doesn't mean the writers were born there or have even been there long. It doesn't even mean that they particularly like the city. You're making a lot of assumptions, and a lot of these writers may just be living there because they really want to work in game journalism and such jobs aren't available just anywhere.
And the companies are there in the first place because they followed the game developers. The industry used to be dominated by Japanese-developed games, so the American branches that were linked to Japanese companies had to locate themselves on the west coast because it made traveling back and forth between Japan much easier. Back when the industry was really centered around Nintendo, a lot of companies opened US branches near Nintendo in Washington state. Eventually the business shifted to San Francisco, but, honestly, I wouldn't even say that city dominates anymore. More and more companies have moved to the Los Angeles area in order to be one with all the other entertainment industries.
It's not just that. Atari was founded and headquartered in the Bay Area. When Activision formed, they stayed in the same area. Since the 70s, Silicon Valley has been the heart of high-tech in this country, and especially early on, video games were more associated with new technology than with general entertainment like movies. Game companies were never totally concentrated in one area (Williams/Midway was always in Illinois for example), but the Bay was indisputably number 1 for the longest time. Now it's pretty even with SoCal, but other than E3 (which was in LA from the beginning), the gaming media has pretty much stayed put.
Last edited by j_factor; 05-01-2010 at 12:28 AM.
I myself place the blame entirely on Rice-A-Roni. It's a travesty to mingle rice and pasta. Be a man, pick one.
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