Goodbye G4. I’m sure someone will miss their 24 hour loop of Lost reruns.
Oh man, I remember just a few years ago, looking through the channel guide and going nuts over G4. What nerdy pre-pubescent boy wouldn’t lose his mind over the idea of “videogame TV”?
It’s the same kid who watched that “videogame TV” and started asking what the hell Ninjas-In-Training have to do with videogames.
One could argue G4 got killed off a long time ago, and stopped actually being about video games almost immediately upon contact with the enemy. I would be one of those people. However, I can’t just sit here and make nothing but sarcastic remarks about one of gaming’s pioneering forays into mainstream entertainment.
Think back to 12 years ago, when G4 was first founded: Call of Duty didn’t exist, nor did Killzone, Angry Birds, Candy Crush, or even those dreaded Zynga social networking games. Unless you had Nintendo Power or one of the few other gaming publications in print, the only way to get into gaming was through buying the games yourself and hoping you didn’t pick a stinker.
G4 was treading new ground, even if it ended up collapsing on the shores, unable to make contact with the natives. It also proved that gamers can only tolerate game-related media in short bursts, not stretched out over the course of a 30 minute or hour long presentation. That’s not an insult by any means to gaming fans’ attention spans, just a thesis supported by the depressingly-large probability that more people will read gamerheadlines.com in the next 24 hours than tuned into G4 this day last year.
I’m not complaining.
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