Social games are here to stay. There are about 100,000,000 players playing every month on Facebook alone, and Farmville has more unique players (with 80 million) in a month than all the sales of the biggest selling game of all time, Wii Sports (with 60 million). Every gaming pundit on the web is asking the same question: “Where is this industry going to be in five years”? I decided to contemplate the future by analyzing the past, and identifying 3 ways that this social gaming trend is imitating the Atari gaming explosion of the 80′s.
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