The Cunctator wrote:
On 1/4/07, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
>I would note that "Game Over" comes from American video game culture
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It's much older than. It appeared on pinball machines before video
games ever existed.
Hmmm... you're going to have to edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_over then...
Oh for crying out loud, what on earth does a referee's whistle mean at
the end of a footie match if not game over? Christ, how many PE
teachers around the world have called out come on in boys, game over...
I mean Thackery wrote in Vanity Fayre that "The Game, in her opinion,
was over". That's a century before pinball culture. Did Americans
invent sex too?