About
The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race is a self-acclaimed title by PC-gamers used to praise PC gaming and claim it superior to any other style of gaming. The claim is often made in PC vs. console gaming discussions, in which console gamers are commonly described as Dirty Console Peasants.
Origin
On January 23rd, 2008, video game tabloid the Escapist’s[2] video game review series Zero Punctuation,[3] hosted by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, released a review for the PC game The Witcher.[1] Early in the video Croshaw ironically points out how the Witcher clearly is a PC game due its complex and unintuitive structure so that “those dirty console playing peasants don’t ruin it for the glorious pc-gaming master race”. As of March 2013, the episode managed to gather over 400 comments and 650 Facebook likes on the Escapist website. A version later uploaded to Youtube on July 21st, 2011, managed to gather over 200,000 views as of the same date.
Spread
A Facebook page[4] for the Glorious PC Gaming Master race was created on February 23rd, 2010, and has since managed to gather over 3.900 likes as of March 2013. The r/pcmasterrace subreddit[5] was created on April 30th, 2011, and has gathered over 1.500 readers as of the same date. An article by VG 24/7[6] published on June 14th, 2012, joked how an idea of Todd Howard, head of Bethesda, to allow console gamers to experience mods would allow them to experience the glory of PC gaming. Kotaku wrote an article[7] on November 25th, 2012, covering an image depicting the PC gaming master race (shown below) created by digital illustrator Saenji Oh, which managed to gather over 60.000 views and 800 comments on Kotaku and nearly 1 million views on Imgur[8] as of March 2013.
Additionally, threads discussing the glorious PC gaming master race or the reason for the existance of the term can be found on Newgrounds,[9]IGN,[10] Rooster Teeth[11] and the Bodybuilding Forums.[12]
Notable Examples
Additional examples can also be found through the Tumblr tags #pc-gaming-master-race[13] and #master-race.[14]
Search Interest
External References.
[1]The Escapist – Zero Punctuation: The Witcher
[2]Wikipedia – The Escapist
[3]Wikipedia – Zero Punctuation
[4]Facebook – Glorious PC Gaming Master Race
[5]Reddit – r/pcmasterrace
[6]VG 24/7 – Todd Howard wants console players to experience the glory of PC mods
[7]Kotaku – The Rise of the Glorious Master Race of PC Gamers
[8]Imgur – Master Race
[9]Newgrounds – Glorious Pc Gaming Master Race
[10]IGN– Why do they call it the PC gaming master race when all of the good games are on consoles?
[11]Rooster Teeth – Why does the PC master race exist?
[12]Bodybuilding Forums – What PC Master Race games have I missed in the last 14 years or so?
[13]Tumblr – #pc-gaming-master-race
[14]Tumblr – #master-race