10-18-2003, 03:00 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 5,133
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No, Really! It Was Fun Back Then!
Enough of our readers are old enough to remember playing countless hours of Space Invaders, and later, games like the original Donkey Kong. Heck, I still like those games. But are they fun for kids spoiled by the latest and greatest 128-bit systems, with 3D games rendered using all those polygons and colors?
Electronic Gaming Monthly performed a little experiment to see if a selection of gaming classics, including Space Invaders, Pong, and Donkey Kong, could hold interest of six modern kids between the ages of 10 and 13.
The results? Well, see for yourself.
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10-18-2003, 03:05 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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This is hysterical! I had the football game. I love this exchange.
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EGM: Which team are you playing?
Kirk: The red lines.
EGM: Did you score?
Kirk: I bumped into a dot.
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:rotfl:
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10-18-2003, 03:09 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 282
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Hey, I was playing Space Invaders and Asteroids last night on my Atari. 
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10-18-2003, 03:11 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 116
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TOO Funny!!
That was a riot! I remeber the days of Donky Kong tournements at my friends house. They lasted for hours! I be the kids would have loved Joust! That game was awesome! I still want to ride an ostrich every time I see one!!! LOL
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10-18-2003, 03:13 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,468
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There I am feeling all old because my birthday's round the corner - and you go and publish this to make me feel worse...! Thanks Kati...! :cry:
(I still find Pac-Man hard to play you know...)
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10-18-2003, 03:15 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 734
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God almighty, save us from the new generation! 
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Note: Everything written here was actually said by these kids. Really. The only change we made was to remove the more gratuitous usages of the word "gay".
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We were way more civilized way back then.
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Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line. Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.
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[talking about mario]
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EGM: Who's that chick Mario is rescuing up there?
Brian: It's Princess Peach.
Kirk: It's a hooker.
Niko: She looks cut in half.
Tim: Oh wow�she's one of those pole dancers.
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Oh god, I'm going to need a stiff drink after reading this Absolutely hilarious.
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10-18-2003, 03:17 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 129
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I wrote these for my iPaq LOL. Let me know if you want a copy :0)
Dom
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10-18-2003, 03:31 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 33
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Depressing...
I don't know about y'all but if these are typical American kids, then I think USA is going downhill pretty fast. They have to curse to express themselves in a national publication and they appear pretty spoiled and snotty as well :?
With future leadership like this, I'd give the good 'ol U.S.A. about 50 more years tops.
PS I could kick their pathetic tails around on any of those video games, :devilboy:
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10-18-2003, 03:42 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 153
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lol, yeah.
but then again maybe EGM somehow prod the kids to be a bit histerical instead of giving them sense of technical perspective.
The article is funny.
I wonder what video games looks like 10-20 years from now.
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10-18-2003, 03:45 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 651
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Wow the things that kids today say. I still have my atari 2600 and all my games. I even found roms for the games that i own and I play them all the time on my ipaq. Remember Pitfall??? I also had that football game, and remember that magnetic football game that vibrated 8O, those were the days.
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Linear Mode
