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1up.com has posted the second in an article series called "Child's Play", where they invite youngsters to experience the joys of classic gaming to hilarious effect. From the (sob) article: "Bobby: After you beat the Death Star level, there should be a snow level, then a small speeder bike level. They should make a Matrix game in the theme of Star Wars. So then you take out your sword and run up to a guy and go, "Chiiing!" And after you saw through his head, you fly inside your X-wing."
Actually, the kid saw the hammer & sickle and thought "Nazi sign", confusing it with a swastika.
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And, for what it's worth, Nintendo didn't allow Wolfenstein's swastikas in the port to the SNES... I'd say Parker's at least half right.
If retro gaming is your thing, you should seriously consider picking up a Sega Dreamcast on Ebay. They can be had for practically nothing, and they'll read regular ol' CD-Rs with no modding necessary! Personally, I have the entire Atari 2600 collection on a single 8cm CD along with a port of Stella. Very cool. :) 'course, I also have a large collection of NES games burned and playable with NesterDC, and another with SMS games and an SMS Plus port (which is, BTW, the most beautiful emulator I've seen for the DC... an that's just the first release! I can't imagine how 0.2 is going to improve on it.). And, of course, there's emulators for a *ton* of other 8-bit or less consoles (the 16-bit generation is sorely lacking in decent emulators, with no Genesis emulator to speak of, and no full-speed SNES emulator), along with a number of MAME ports.
Well unfortunatly Mike Tyson's Punch Out has a problem that other games don't it is the fact kids never grew up thinking that Mike Tyson was a hero charactor. At the time of the Game Mike Tyson was the Champ, Unbeatible, Proof that a kid from the Gheto could do something with his life. Then after going to jail and loosing fights he has been push to has been, ex Punk Kid who had his 15 minutes of fame and wasted it, and is now the Gheto Kid who wasted his life, after having the chance of a life time.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Not to shoot holes in anyone's theory, but not only have I seen an 11 year old, I own one (and an 8, a 9, and a 14 year old). My 11 year old remembers the Mike Tyson ear bite (I just asked him, but am not about to ask him about the rape trials). My 9 year old knows nothing about it... not even who Mike Tyson is.
By 11, kids can be pretty insightful, and their logic skills (and sarcasm skills) are fairly developed. He's finally at an age where I can have real conversations with him, rather than lead him in conversations as in the past.
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
Sorry. That link went to the second page. Here's the real links _200310/ai_ziff109674
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdegm/i
I think you mean, "a large number of families use two incomes to keep the digital cable, high-speed internet, new SUV and its associated gasoline costs and designer clothes paid off while still being able to keep food on the table and the roof rented." Maybe these spendy people shouldn't be having kids until they can afford to take care of them (where taking care of them != buying them everything they want while staying at work all day). There is no excuse in a first-world country for people having kids and not being able to parent them properly these days. It certainly doesn't stop people, though. An interesting example was the couple where the mother had fertility treatments and ended up with a huge number of babies. Then they had the nerve to ask for donations to be able to even support them financially. Thanks for degrading our society, morons.