Don’t think I’d say it has to be older, but I’d echo the sentiment to read something.

Too many of my peers (and myself at some points) would rarely/never read a book unless forced to for a school assignment. If that’s you op, get out of that headspace asap.

The Castlevania soundtrack adaptations from The Megas. Or if you’re in a classier mood, just classic Castlevania tracks directly.

I’m sure they try to dress it up in some palatable way on either side. But if they’ve ever said AI would save them money, that would mean because they aren’t paying as many humans.

I think there are two related concepts that the same word gets used for.

One is the sliding window of things that seem old. I’d put that around 2 gens ago - just long enough for things to go out of print/leave retail, lose media focus, and have adults remembering them from childhood.

The other idea encompasses the foundation era of game history. I think of that as the time when games harshly constrained by the available hardware, with the chunky pixels, chiptunes, low-poly models, etc. I’d cut this off at or after the PS360Wii gen. That’s about when tech returns started diminishing, and it’s also when the internet started strongly defining design and business models. But everyone looks at it a little different.

Still, the concept of video games is just a baby. There are humans alive that played some of the earliest ones. Maybe centuries from now people will look back fondly on the era where you owned game hardware at all, or didn’t control them with your mind.