At first I felt my stomach do a little flip-flop, but the more I read the more it's obvious that "old-school", 2D games are the entertainment equivalent of black-and-white movies: to enjoy and appreciate them, you either have to have grown up with them, or have the mind to see outside the established modern paradigms. There was a few good quotes from the kids in the article, and there were a few old games they actually liked. But, there were also some very telling quotes, like:
DEFENDER -- With its five buttons and save-the-humans mission, Defender was one of the most complex games in arcade history.
Bobby: I've played this on my cell phone.
We've just gotten to the point where us old folks and the generation before us grew up and depending on for our fix the kind of games that are now just treated as filler in Animal Crossing and cell phones. It kind of makes you wonder what our children's children will see Half-Life 2 and Halo as...
EDIT: Defender, not Galaga.
KEEP EDITING: It's eating my ezCodes! >_< :.switches to HTML.:
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EGM: Yup. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.
Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?
That's the line of the article right there.
I saw this months ago in EGM.
I like the first one more.
This reaks of "fake", if you ask me, but it's still pretty damn funny.
Oddly enough, I didn't really grow up with 2D gaming. yet I play and like them.
However, there are more games among modern gaming that I rank higher than among older stuff. This is because I believe there is geniunely more imagination and craftsmanship being put into some stuff that there was, say, twenty years ago. And control systems are often better.
And let's be fair, most games before 1990 had crap graphics.
Anyways, the lkids had the sense to appreciate Gunstar Heroes. Sort of.
Anyone who thinks that this article was written by actual kids is very gullible, very stupid, or both.
Absolutely hilarious.
I appreciate the older games btw, but regardless this is still funny. And yeah, I agree with Wonder, there's no way 10 year old kids would be able to write, much less speak, the things that are mentioned in the article.
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However, there are more games among modern gaming that I rank higher than among older stuff. This is because I believe there is geniunely more imagination and craftsmanship being put into some stuff that there was, say, twenty years ago.
Ironically, many people consider that the "Golden Age" of gaming occurred over 20 years ago(pre-crash).
Those people generally fall under the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" banner.
Except that there people are experienced gamers including the professional journalists who still play modern games today. =)
Doesn't mean they can't be set in their ways.
Just like all the people who can't accept Katamari for the awesomeness it is because it's completely different from anything they're used to.
You're always going to get a certain amount of people who think that a few lines moving around a screen with no point to the game, no storyline, no nothing, is better than the cinematic gaming experiences of today. And that's okay. But they really ARE missing out on a lot of great games, just like people who won't accept classics are.
And when they mean the Golden-Age of gaming, they meant gaming on multiple home consoles, arcades, computers across all age groups as a social event and not as shunned as a kids activity or. As of now, the arcades are dying.
From the GTA part:
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EGM: If no one told you what this game was, would you be able to tell what series it's from?
Parker: Maybe, from the stealing of cars.
Rachel: I really like this game, because I can do all these things that are so against what I'd ever do in reality...
Garret: That's the whole point of videogames.
And that's where I'm ticked off the most. In the wise words of Omega: Worthless consumer models. And I mean the kids
