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Can Kids Tolerate Classic Games?

Posted by simoniker on from the pixels-not-cool dept.

Thanks to EGM for their feature subjecting today's children to yesterday's gaming classics, as they "...rounded up nine children of the PlayStation generation - ages 10 to 13 - and forced them to play titles from the '70s and '80s." Games the kids comment on include Pong ("I would never pay to play something like this"), Tetris ("Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?"), and, evilly, E.T. for the Atari 2600 ("Didn't they bury this game in Mexico or something?")

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  1. i'd be surprised if a kid actually knew... by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did You Know?
    Atari buried 5 million unsold copies of E.T. in the New Mexico desert.

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    1. Re:i'd be surprised if a kid actually knew... by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah. They also joke about how EGM uses the space invaders monsters on their website. Either the kids are faithful EGM readers and know all about video games, or this whole article has to be made up.

      It's still funny, but... I don't buy it.

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  2. Hardly representative... by Chemical+Serenity · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Recently, some neighbors of ours had an "80s Retro House Party" (yes, it really WAS as lame as it sounds ;) and being the good neighborhood geek I trundled out an old p2-300 and stuck MAME on it with the 80s gaming classics: Galaga, Joust, Pacman and so forth.

    I think perhaps 2 adults of the several dozen that were there ever got a chance to play. The kids were fighting over who got to have a chance at jousting each other.

    Maybe these kids are particularly "urbanized" (once you play GTA:VC it's hard to go back to nibbling dots, admittedly) but from what I've seen kids are just as enthused about oldschool games as we were... except now, they don't have to pay for 'em. GG MAME! :D

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  3. oh the things kids say! by quakeslut · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the review of Donkey Kong:
    EGM: Who's that chick Mario is rescuing up there?
    Brian: It's Princess Peach.
    Kirk: It's a hooker.

  4. That's it by Apreche · · Score: 2, Funny

    For real this time. I've said it before. When I have kids, I'm making them play video games right. No johnny, you can't have zelda 2 until you beat zelda 1. Now sit your ass down and find some triforce pieces. You want a PS4? Hah! You haven't even beaten pitfall yet! How can you expect to play those new fancy games if you suck at the old ones so much.

    I will raise my children to be the video game masters. Out of the womb and into the hands goes the joystick. The kind with a single orange button.

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