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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

There were a lot more feeemales in arcades in Pong's time. It was more of a well-rounded social gathering place with jukeboxes, pool tables, air hockey, and the like.

It was a deliberate porky-happy choice to nudge that culture with advertising and marketing tricks to make it increasingly hostile to feeemales once their internal studies indicated that male freeze-gamer spend more money when they're not just chatting and flirting and otherwise hanging out for relatively free and are instead getting very serious about the bibeo bame.