videogame playing 11 year olds, they know nothing! Options

[*kryogenix*]

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3137498

I was shocked to see this. "Donkey Kong is "lame." Tetris is "boring." Space Invaders "needs a superbomb or something."

WHAT?

Anyone who has fond memories playing classic games would probably jump out a window after hearing that. EGM had a little experiment called Child's Play, where they asked younger kids (who were born in the so called "Playstation Generation") to play classic games from the 80's and earlier.

Their responses were shocking.

Seriously, I'm about to cry. These kids are terrible.

Anthony: If Mike Tyson was in this game, his special move would be to bite people's ears. Then he'd be all gloating about it, but then the sound's all low because you can't hear him because your ears are gone. [Points at the next opponent, Von Kaiser, seen in the screen to the left] That's Mike Tyson, and he's trying to bite off your ear.

Garret: That's not Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar mustache, and he's not white.

EGM: So those are the two things that make you think that's not Tyson?

Garret: Yeah, plus he's wearing pants.

EGM: What do you think that green guy is? [Points to wildman Blanka]

Bobby: He's a mutated lizard-man scientist. He was a scientist, and he was working, and he mutated himself into the ultimate lizard.

EGM: Where did you learn that story?

Bobby: My brother loves Blanka. It's his favorite videogame character.

EGM: If this game had blood and gore like Mortal Kombat, would you like it more?

Parker: Then this would be the best game ever created. Ever. Because violence is so cool-in videogames.

The first two are examples of extreme stupidity.

The third is scary.

From Slashdot:

Back in the bronze and silver age of arcade games, we did not have the technology to create "realistic" games, so we made fun games where ones imagination was required. This level of abstraction made games fun and entertaining without the (argueably) negative societal consequences.

Today, kids engage in auto thefts, mass murder, and first person real time role playing where they can be anyone they choose to be (be it good or evil). There is no longer any need to exercise ones imagination, as that has been replaced by stunning graphics which is slowly approaching a level of realism which will make any differentiation between the real world and the arcade world difficult.

That is why there will always be a special place in my heart for the classics. They encouraged my sense of imagination. Todays games lack that.

Look at what has happened. Are videogames moving in the right direction?

Responses please my friends.

[*kryogenix*]

More stupidity:

Anthony: Why did he get thrown up when he got jumped on.

EGM: I don't think physics is supposed to be realistic.

Bobby: It's probably because the Nazis felt bad having a cement fighting place, so they put little trampolines under-

Parker: Wait. What do Nazi's have to do with it?

Bobby: Because Zangief is a Nazi.

EGM: He's Russian. Not German.

Garret: He's a communist.

Bobby: Then why is Zangief's place a Nazi place?

EGM: It's not.

Bobby: Yes it is-it had a Nazi sign on the cement.

Parker: It couldn't have been. They wouldn't have let that in videogames.

Bobby: Whatever.

Where are kids learning this? That's the hammer and sickle, not the swastika! Zangief is soviet, not nazi german!

EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there--you start all over.

Parker: Are you serious?

EGM: Yep. 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?

I can just imagine this kid saying "y0, wh3r3 c4n I g3t ch3atz!!11one h3lp me h4ck my c0unterstr1ke!!111one