Except for maybe Charlie Chaplin, none of those examples are actually "old" They're relatively old compared to how long you've been alive but think about how long people have been writing books, making movies, making music.... we're talking about a span of 130+ years for movies, writing goes back thousands of years, music…
You are severely limiting your scope of view towards consoles and arcade machines, you are talking as if this was the only market that existed, if you look at the pc you'll see it quite ahead of its time, games with deep stories, very long length and no intention to eat coins. The first person shooters and its birth during…