David J Prokopetz: A big part of media literacy boils down to being aware of a given medium's canon of titles that creators love to reference and nobody else remembers. Not just in literature, either; like 50% of what retro platformers are doing becomes explicable the moment you watch an LP of "Shatterhand" (1991).

A big part of media literacy boils down to being aware of a given medium's canon of titles that creators love to reference and nobody else remembers. Not just in literature, either; like 50% of what retro platformers are doing becomes explicable the moment you watch an LP of "Shatterhand" (1991).