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When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street'
Thanks to 1UP/OPM for its article discussing what they describe as the 'thugging' of the videogame industry, referencing games such as Def Jam Fight for NY and Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. The piece suggests: "Whether it was established franchises morphing into more streetwise versions of their former selves or new franchises emerging wearing their hip-hop influences on their sleeves, it was clear that the urban lifestyle is being embraced by developers and publishers alike." Marc Ecko argues "I think the problem is that the games industry is generationally nostalgic", and Steve Allison of Midway charges: "The guys bitching about this new trend are inching up on 35 years old, and they grew up on old-school gameplay. They're a very vocal bunch, but they're just not the market anymore."
These video games are as much "from the street" as Vanilla Ice was.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Pong: Snoop Dogg Edition
Dig Dugg 2: The Electric boogaloo
Defender...of Compton
or heck just play Dopewars.
Yo momma!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
... that I haven't figured out how to cash in on white kids wishing they were black, yet.
And with Arnold as Governor, we have a green light for unlimited violence in the entertainment industry. So there.
They never go "Magic the Gathering: Street"
That could get real ugly...
Dude, I still play NARC all the time... You mean that's not what life on the street was like back in '88?
"Oh, and by the way Midway guy, 95% of the games your company has put out are trash."
"95%"?
What, are you on Midway's payroll or something?.....
One for you, nineteen for me ~~ maybe for the taxman, but Midway's penchant for execrable games is far more proportionally dominant than that.
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/o,100/j,74/
(Note that I am not referring to the legacy of masterful arcade games from the original Midway: Defender, Robotron: 2084 (!), SpyHunter, and Marble Madness are timeless pioneering classics that, if anything, only make the eyecandy-dependent poorly-balanced twitchfests represented by their `90s-present catalogue all the more vapid and forgettable.)
there's that whole "crush your enemies, see them driven before you, mack on their women" thing too
Well said!
Up until recently, parents have been clueless about the games their kids are playing. But that's about to change, because more and more new parents are old-school gamers.
I'm 25 now. Parenthood isn't far off in my plans. If my kid wants a game, it'll have to get past me first, and "Grand Theft Hovercar XXIV: Bitch Smacka" is not gonna pass that test.
Hopefully, at that point, we'll have already had "the talk", and my child will value gameplay instead of sex, drugs, and violence. If so, then I won't need to worry.
But you speak so well :-)
Hey, I'm just your average shit and piss factory.
Hey now, do not be dissing rap music yo. It is music geee. I know when I be hanging with my bitches, we be listening to some fat rhymes up in this. Word. Now, they will be a saying that rap has been around for 20 years so it is not a fad yo. So it's just like country. Or polka. Or any other dope ass music yo. When I'm driving in my 89 (honda) with my mind on my coupons and my coupons on my mind, I take solice in the fact that I didn't have to use my ak today. Then I kick on some dope ass rap musician to cement that mood. Sometimes I get bored and make up new words with "izzle" in them when I'm not busy pretending I'm little john. It's hard in the hood yo. I can remember the hood. It was where mister rodgers had that dope ass blue owl. And the king with the tiny round castle thing. And that trolly. I'd so lower that trolly and put some remy-delco's on it.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Yes sir! It's the fair and balanced view of hip-hop video games vs traditional video games debated and moderated by /. readers - the definitive source on hip-ho... - I'm mean traditional gaming.
Mc Chris is probably the best rapper I've ever heard in my life. He's more interesting because he's not talking about his dick, his bitches, his benjamins, or his bentleys. He's not talking about how frigging great he is constantly. And he says shit that puts me on the floor laughing. He's not all trying to be some serious badass, like the posers taking the corporate payoff want you to believe they are. Chris has some lyrics for the people that say he "sucks".
:) Can't hate that. You've got a poet on your hands with stuff like this:
"You say all of my shit is complete nonsense,
Fuck my CD and the shitty ass contents.
Bullshit! My shit's the bomb.
Siamese twins want ménage a trois.
Robot bitches want their backs massaged.
They may not be real but their tits is large."
"White kids love hip hop and axel, tractors and Rambo, playing unreal tournament with
infinite ammo.
Taggers and vandals in black socks and sandals, doin' as many drugs as they
can motherfuckin' handle.
Skippin' school, breakin' rules and flippin the bird, fast food, cartoons after ittin' some erb.
Freakin dem flirts, making 'em purr till it hurts,
just a couple nerds clockin' the curbs, a couple a words about my nilla wiggas,
packin' peters that are measured in milimeters.
We don't talk in the theaters like we're Siskel and Ebert.
We drink box wine and we listen to Weezer."
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
So here I sit listening to my yodelling CDs. Frank Ifield will never sell out! :-)