Blasphemers!
Oct. 18th, 2003 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI found a link to this ... on Ars Technica, which I accidentally clicked on when I wanted something else.
A bunch of 10- to 13-year-olds were made to play old-school video games.
A bunch of 10- to 13-year-olds were made to play old-school video games.
Pong
Niko: Hey—Pong. My parents played this game.
Brian: It takes this whole console just to do Pong?
Gordon: It doesn't even go over the net. It goes through it. I don't even think that thing in the middle is a net.
Tim: My line is so beating the heck out of your stupid line. Fear my pink line. You have no chance. I am the undisputed lord of virtual tennis. [Misses ball] Whoops.
John: Tim, how could you miss that? It was going like 1 m.p.h.
Sheldon: Hey, why does it say Sears on the controller?
EGM: Sears sold it for Atari.
Andrew: Isn't Sears, like, a clothing company?
Becky: Sears makes everything. Actually, I've never been in there.
Donkey Kong
Becky: It looks like a Mario that got run over by a car.
Andrew: Really. I mean the man is almost flat.
Gordon: He's a funny color.
Sheldon: His face looks pink.
Becky: What color is he supposed to be? Green? And why can't we get past this first level?
Andrew: Someone take over before I lose my dignity. [Mario picks up the hammer power-up]
Andrew and Niko: Hey, that's from Super Smash Bros.
Andrew: So that's where they got the idea from.
Tetris
Tim: Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?
EGM: Sorry, they don't explode.
Becky: This is boring. Maybe if it had characters and stuff and different levels, it would be OK. If things blew up or something or—
Sheldon: If there were bombs.
Becky: Yeah, or special bricks. Like, if a yellow brick touched a red brick it would blow up and you'd have to start over.
John: I just lined up six of the same color. Why didn't they blow up?
EGM: Nothing blows up.
Super Mario Bros.
Tim: I think mushrooms are like steroids in this. See how you get bigger and stronger?
Space Invaders
EGM: This game was so popular in Japan that—
John: They made it into a TV show?
EGM: Well, no. It was so popular that they ran out—
John: Oh, did they make collectible trading cards for it?
EGM: Um, no. It was so popular that there was a shortage of the coins used to play it.
John: But you can get this game on a cell phone. Why would you want to pay for it in an arcade?
Tim: This is nothing compared to Grand Theft Auto III, because you can't steal a taxi cab, pick up somebody, then drive into the ocean with him.
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Date: 2003-10-18 08:36 pm (UTC)It's like the whole Internet thing - people these days have no appreciation for the techonolgy and geekness and hackerdom that powers and built it.
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Date: 2003-10-18 09:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-10-20 08:56 pm (UTC)Jenn
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Date: 2003-10-21 03:55 pm (UTC)Jenn
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Date: 2003-10-21 07:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-22 06:00 am (UTC)http://www.the-underdogs.org/
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Date: 2003-10-22 10:54 pm (UTC)I know you can find versions Tetris on calculators and PS2s and GNOME and whatnot now but, while those are very nice, it's not quite as fun as the original colors and music of the Nintendo game that made me so happy as a young, and stupid, child of the '80s ...
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