Far Side’s Gary Larson made a joke about video games in the 1980s that ended up inadvertently predicting the future of the entire eSports industry.
Gary Larson’s Far Side once predicted how big video games would become, as a comic strip accidentally joked about the fun hobby becoming a potential job. With the rise of video games, the commentary in the Far Side comic about playing them leading to a real profession ended up becoming true, predating the eSports itself by over 30 years.
Gary Larson’s Far Side comic strip was a wildly popular surrealist comic that ran in syndication in newspapers from 1980-1995. The comic featured observations and spoofs on culture, social situations, and society, often with absurd slants featuring animals taking the place of humans. Larson’s award-winning work, which he recently returned to when the author launched his new website in…
