ViDeO gAmEs HaVe AlWaYs BeEn PoLItIcAl!!! 

Missile Command was about the dangers of all out nuclear war and that no matter how good you were at stopping missiles, eventually you’d run out of ammo and would lose

Cave painting were not political either, but later art is. The primative technology's only allow a certain level of expression.

Pong -> Asteroids -> operation wolf -> Ps3. Yep an in depth coverage of the history of video games.

I can't tell if this drivel of bad satire

yes play space quest 3 i enjoyed the reaganomics subtext of the two half animal nrecenaries i avoided as i escapsd the trash station

Super Mario is massive political 😂

Your videos are sooo funny 😂

You're missing the point. Pong may not have an explicit political message but its development and creation is imprinted in the social and political context of the time. Electronics were developed due to the cold war, specially due to the arms race. The mass production of electronic consumer products would be impossible in a different political and economic context, starting with the fact that the whole game design (and arcade games in general) is based on sucking your coins as fast as possible, something that's only logical in a capitalist mentality. There were no Pong machines in maoist China. As for the other games you mentioned, Zelda doesn't have an explicit political message either but the implicit assumptions on sex politics is and the echos of feudal ideology are crystal clear. The idea that games like Operation Wolf or Contra don't have a clear political message of Reaganite militarism and anticommunism is laughable. Do you think that's a coincidence that no NES game has you playing as the North Vietnamese or the Angolans? Even the name Contra is a reference to a real political scandal. That doesn't mean that the developers were pushing for an ideology, it's just that pop culture reflects the implicit assumptions of the political context that gives it birth, either by upoholding or subverting them. And the claim that there were no explicit politics in games before "the PS3 era" is laughable. Metal Gear was explicitely political already in the late eighties, for example. And yes the Star Wars movies are not only political, they are as explicitely and unsubtely political as October or Rome: Open City. To be honest the whole polemic about "political games" seems a knee jerk reaction from manchildren who were to deft to see the politics in what they played as kids, and get angry when those get pointed out, specially when they have reactionary views and are challenged by others.