James Halliday Ready Player One Analysis

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In the book Ready Player One, a character by the name of James Halliday created a virtual reality game known as the OASIS. Halliday makes references to various eighties arcade games. His obsession with the eighties and nineties is what made Halliday stuck in the past. While eighties and nineties games are indeed incredible and helped to set the blueprints of the video games of today, Halliday seems to neglect the influential titles of the modern age. There are no references to modern video games within Ready Player One. Not one. They are all games that had arcade cabinets at one point in their life. There are no references to influential titles of modern video games that would have shaped the world that Ready Player One is in. Games comparable

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