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 There is no longer any need to exercise ones imagination, as that has been replaced by stunning graphics which is slowly approaching a level of realism which will make any differentiation between the real world and the arcade world difficult.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.

[mechwarrior1989]

Video games are a way to feed your id. If you don't know what that is, go read up on Freud. I've also read the last two Child's play articles, you can't expect children who have grown up with more "modern" games to respect older games. It's like how old people often get stuck in times of 'ole. Now we don't look at cars from the 50's and say that's hot, we say that's a classic but we don't look at them the same way that we look at say a ferrari enzo. Plus kids are getting dumber and graphics in older games weren't exactly all that great so if they say something dumb, I'll give them the benifit of the doubt. Kids know what they want. Just because they're 11 doesn't make them any less capable of choosing what they like. I remember when I was 11 or even younger then that, that was the time of the pokemon craze, I knew what I wanted, pokemon for GBA and pokemon cards. Also I can remember back to 1st grade, I can remember playing video games back then as well, that was 9 years ago. Those games were great back then, but now if I were to play them, they would seem pretty lame. The games have gotten so advanced now that most side scrollers aren't even to satisfy our appitites for games.

[*kryogenix*]

Video games are a way to feed your id. If you don't know what that is, go read up on Freud. I've also read the last two Child's play articles, you can't expect children who have grown up with more "modern" games to respect older games. It's like how old people often get stuck in times of 'ole. Now we don't look at cars from the 50's and say that's hot, we say that's a classic but we don't look at them the same way that we look at say a ferrari enzo. Plus kids are getting dumber and graphics in older games weren't exactly all that great so if they say something dumb, I'll give them the benifit of the doubt. Kids know what they want. Just because they're 11 doesn't make them any less capable of choosing what they like. I remember when I was 11 or even younger then that, that was the time of the pokemon craze, I knew what I wanted, pokemon for GBA and pokemon cards. Also I can remember back to 1st grade, I can remember playing video games back then as well, that was 9 years ago. Those games were great back then, but now if I were to play them, they would seem pretty lame. The games have gotten so advanced now that most side scrollers aren't even to satisfy our appitites for games.

Videogames feed your id, you can't argue with that. But thinking that the only good videogames are violent games is way off.

The games today have little to no replay value. Whereas many of those games do have replay value.

[mechwarrior1989]

Videogames feed your id, you can't argue with that. But thinking that the only good videogames are violent games is way off.

The games today have little to no replay value. Whereas many of those games do have replay value.

I said they're a way of feeding your id, I didn't say that they were all violent. By feeding your id you are creating a diversion from the killing which every human is programed to do. Riding your bike or playing an instrument are also ways of feeding your id, they don't exactly involve much violence. In the freuding view of the world, basically everything we do can be considered as a way of feeding our id.