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Out of the Mouths of Babes...
Fark linked up this story about what, exactly, a group of 10 to 13-year-olds think of "classic" video games like Pong, Donky Kong, and Space Invaders. Some choice comments:
"It takes this whole console just to do Pong?"
[On Donky Kong]: "It looks like a Mario that got run over by a car."
[On Coleco Hand-Held Football:] Brian: What's this supposed to be?
Interviewer: Football. It's one of the first great portable games.
Brian: I thought it was Run Away From the Dots.
Being a girl, it's possible Olivia will think video games are lame and not mess with them at all. This will spare me the indignity of getting waxed on a console by my own 12-year-old. My brother, on the other hand, is not so lucky. I am counting the days until my nephew hands him his head in, say, Virtua Fighter XIV.
Nothing like playing one of the good old classics again to make you realize how increadibly lame they were compared to today's games.
Though I would like to find an old Atari Football game (the one with the X's and O's) in working condition. It was pretty accurate, and even rather punishing physically, thanks to the World's Least Ergonomic Trackball.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on October 17, 2003 07:35 AMYour first sentence is incrediably sexist! lol I sincerely hope Olivia waxes all your male butts.
Posted by: Pat on October 17, 2003 11:46 AM