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Dark Souls created soulslike genre. Elden Ring perfected it through open-world accessibility. Difficulty without handholding became gaming philosophy.

Dark Souls proved that game difficulty and fairness could coexist. By embracing challenge and respecting player skill, it redefined what players expected from games.

Video games went from a blinking dot on a screen in 1972 to a $200 billion industry in 50 years. The history is a story of technology, creative leaps, market crashes, and the democratisation of interactive entertainment into the world's largest cultural medium.