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Quokka - I feel the same way about older cartoons - its part of the reason that I have started to watch anime - the stories and animation are more like what I grew up with and so much superior to the shows they make in the west today - predicable and empty and clearly working to a 'formula' rather than trying to tell a story.
As for online gaming - I think it has to be classed in a world of its own - unlike tv, books and many single player games the focus of the game is not the expanding storyline but more the interaction with a dynamic environment and with real people = something that the other forms do not give.