How kids feel about the games we played

Corbett | October 29, 2003 12:10 PM

This article is pretty funny, and makes me feel unbelievably old. Electronic Gaming Monthly got a bunch of kids in a room and forced them to play the same games we played when we were kids. Their comments and reactions are hilarious.

Reading it, I suddenly remembered when my mom sent me Pong as a Christmas present from Japan. I was like nine, and the most popular kid on the block. Friends would gather in my living room, staring for hours at the little blips floating across on the screen.

Then in junior high there was Space Invaders, and we got our ten minute fix while our parents were shopping in the grocery store.

Then there was high school and Donkey Kong was king. My friends and I would pour roll after roll of quarters into that damned machine, sucking us dry, level by level, surviving on Doritos and Mountain Dew.

Now I don't have time for games, except the kind done across a negotiation table. That's very sad. Because you can't smash a VC over the head with a giant hammer, or watch him get burned by a blue flame, or blow him up with a laser blast. Now there would be a good game...

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