Back then, video games were little squares of light that did stuff. These squares might represent space ships or cowboys, but that was completely up to you. It was a little like a Rorshach test. That football game could just as easily be a game themed around the movie Porky's. Anyway, not so anymore.
Video games are sophisticated things now.
You can go after your fellow man over the network and blow him up. And gloat, too. But I don't. I just want a stupid game to play when I'm slacking off from real work. It did not let me down.