Yeah it is, check it out.
I wish I had friends that lived by me, instead of peeps on an internet board, that understood videogames like this. It would make for some great conversation and gameplay.
Good article, but a little on the short side. I'm both a cub scout leader and a volunteer with a local cadet group here in Ottawa. None of the cubs (aged 7 to 10) knew what atari was.
The points the guy makes about teenagers knowing the games were reflected in the cadets. Many of them knew about them, and I even have a couple of cadets that still played their 2600, though most seem to be enthralled with the SNES era, with games like Secret of Mana and Final Fantasy.
ahmen to that!
Good article.
Good article, but Tapper is a great game, much more addictive than he makes it sound. Now I gotta put in my Midway Arcade Treasures game in my GameCube and see how it is.
Ciao people! I'll be back in a few hours!
yeah, that was a pretty good article... not too in depth, but the author definitely gets their point across.
and i too just picked up that midway arcade treasures on gcn... rampart has been kicking my ass hardcore.
Rampart suffers from controller issues, imho. Tough to emulate the precision of a trackball.
I liked the article, mainly because it's what I've been saying all along. Making Mario 3D doesn't make it a better game!!! There are good 3D games, but just converting a game to 3D doesn't improve it.
That article ended at exactly the point where I wanted it to expand into a more in-depth discussion on classic games.
But it was well-written, anyway.
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As opposed to this *horrible* piece from the usually excellent Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/200...oys/index.htmlOriginally Posted by Duncan
At least the authors have the courtesy to alienate every avid gamer right away with their opening exchange:
"Tom: As this loads up, I have to ask: Are we ashamed, at our age, of playing video games?
"Jeff: Not completely. I liked video games when they looked terrible. Now it seems like we're living in some kind of golden age.
"Tom: Think of the other things we could be doing. Sitting in a bar. Walking outside.
"Jeff: Having meaningful relationships."
And here's their witty commentary on NASCAR Thunder 2004:
"Jeff: This is basically 3-D Frogger. You're just moving and occupying space.
"Tom: Frogger with sideburns and a Skoal sponsorship."
There's also a reference to the non-game "Street Ball" (NBA Street), among other things, but I'll stop now.
-- Z.
They did, however, make the error of stating that the game consoles can "surf the web" (a phrase we, as a population, should have quit using by now), which, barring the Dreamcast, they certainly can not. I didn't read the whole article though, I'm a stickler, if it doesn't catch my interest by the beginning of the second paragraph or I see a glaring error early on I usually stop. But overall I'd agree with what you guys have said...simple is typically better. I'd rather not spend half an hour learning a controller setup, but would rather just play the damn game and, most importantly, have fun with it.