I got to comics after remembering that though the middle Whedon (who hadn't much to do with Buffy anyway) is a few years younger than I, Joss was born mid-1960s and ought thus to be relatively impervious to the influence of computer games' narrative structures.
(Even I'm too old to have imprinted upon the Gameboy, which wasn't released till 1989--and though Super Mario was on NES a few years earlier, when I met it at a friend's house, I was more interested by the "world" theming than the telos of boss battles. That bit seems to be more influential in, parallel to, or reflected by subsequent games, and relatively distinct from how long-form text-only fiction tends to be built.)
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Date: 2014-05-03 01:38 am (UTC)(Even I'm too old to have imprinted upon the Gameboy, which wasn't released till 1989--and though Super Mario was on NES a few years earlier, when I met it at a friend's house, I was more interested by the "world" theming than the telos of boss battles. That bit seems to be more influential in, parallel to, or reflected by subsequent games, and relatively distinct from how long-form text-only fiction tends to be built.)