Originally, video games and their players were typically associated with nerds or social outcasts, but with gaming’s recent rise in popularity they are now associated YouTube gamers and Major League Gaming style tournaments. People are making money off of video games, by not only making and selling them, but by playing and being relatively active within the gaming community. In this way, gaming has pushed itself into mainstream media and is a huge source of entertainment for all people of various age groups around the world. If one were to visit any major local store, like Walmart or Target, they would more than likely see many articles of clothing, school supplies, and posters with references to both today’s newest games and classics like
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Take for example the game Life is Strange. Within this game there are many references to popular culture, which is understandable given that the game is set in modern times. For instance, in one scene of the game the character Chloe is seen driving up to Max, Warren, and Nathan. Before panning up to Chloe, the camera shows her license plate which reads: “TWN PKS”. This is a reference to the 1990s series Twin Peaks. In fact, before starting the cutscene with Warren, one can explore the parking lot and find many other cars with references to different television series like Parks and Recreation, Breaking Bad, and The X-Files. But it is not just television that the game makes references to, continuing through the game one will find several references to the Eye of Providence, various memes, artists, books, and Chaos Theory/Butterfly Effect. Of course, Life is Strange is not the first game to reference popular culture. Another game that includes references to popular culture is the Fallout series. In Fallout 3, if one were to look closely at the cameras in the Capital Wasteland, one would see that a few of them have a red light. This is a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in Fallout: New Vegas if one has the Wild Wasteland perk, they can see and hear different references throughout their travels through the wasteland. One in particular being a reference to Indiana Jones when he
Take for example the game Life is Strange. Within this game there are many references to popular culture, which is understandable given that the game is set in modern times. For instance, in one scene of the game the character Chloe is seen driving up to Max, Warren, and Nathan. Before panning up to Chloe, the camera shows her license plate which reads: “TWN PKS”. This is a reference to the 1990s series Twin Peaks. In fact, before starting the cutscene with Warren, one can explore the parking lot and find many other cars with references to different television series like Parks and Recreation, Breaking Bad, and The X-Files. But it is not just television that the game makes references to, continuing through the game one will find several references to the Eye of Providence, various memes, artists, books, and Chaos Theory/Butterfly Effect. Of course, Life is Strange is not the first game to reference popular culture. Another game that includes references to popular culture is the Fallout series. In Fallout 3, if one were to look closely at the cameras in the Capital Wasteland, one would see that a few of them have a red light. This is a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in Fallout: New Vegas if one has the Wild Wasteland perk, they can see and hear different references throughout their travels through the wasteland. One in particular being a reference to Indiana Jones when he