I don't really have much to add but maybe some spins on what Pennywise said.
Increased travel, increase globalism (allowing people to move here and there with no problem), increased mass-media (TV-shows, movies, music, etc.; creating unrealistic expectations), and especially online-dating / social media (easy access to anybody in the genepool they so desire) have fucked up dating in the exact ways that Pennywise said. I would've probably been married in the 50s with local friends / social connections, because women wouldn't have as much alternatives for good looks / skills due to limited travel and the fact that they would probably be stuck in the social-class bubble that they were in. And unlike say something like being in shape or learning a skill, genetics you cannot change.
"Video games" were like any other boy-kid hobby in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, like baseball cards, TV shows, action figures, anime / Japanese cartoons, Bionicles / legos, action movies, comics, etc.
As soon as a kid became passionate about them passed the point of just having a few of them or occasionally playing them, it indicated to other people that they don't socialize, hang out with people up the social hierarchy, don't talk to girls, etc. This led to other boys ostracizing them out of a fear that they would share the same fate, which lead to girls to also ostracize them. That in turn futher socially isolates them, which leads them to go further in their passions, which leads to further socially isolation, etc. etc. It was a viscious cycle. The only friends / maybe gfs they got were others who were socially isolated in the same way. But if you were in a small school / high school, you were pretty much fucked.
Still happens now. "Nostalgia" is mainstream because people think back to the fun they had with these few things. However, if you show that you are "too nostalgic," the same indicators happen, that you will ruin social credit if you hang out with them.
It happens to me now. I had a friend who was eating a sucker (I'm in my 20s), and I said "what are you, Nick from Jimmy Neutron," kind of mocking him in a friendly kind of way. He asked "who's Nick," I explained he was the cool-kid character, and he looked horrified that I, in my 20s, could remember characters like that besides Carl, Jimmy, and Sheen.