When kids of today play classic video games

[Krug]

Just hilarious!
http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,4364,1338730,00.asp

EGM: Who's that chick Mario is rescuing up there?

Brian: It's Princess Peach.

Kirk: It's a hooker.

Niko: She looks cut in half.

Tim: Oh wow—she's one of those pole dancers

 

[JediSoth]

That's great. Some of the stuff they said was hilarious. "I'm sure everyone who made this game is dead by now."

The sad part is I remember when Space Invaders was Dad Bomb. I didn't have a handheld football game with LEDs, though (I didn't and still don't like football). Mine was an LED pinball game. Pinball rules.

JediSoth

 

[LightPhoenix]

Oh man, that was hilarious!

I'd just like to comment the one girl that they had playing seemed the smartest out of all of them. Coincidence? I think not.

I do remember fondly playing my friend's Atari when I was younger... and yes, I swore at E.T., and so did my friend, though he swore at the game in Italian. I fondly remember playing Pong though... I kicked butt at Pong.

 

[reapersaurus]

It would have been funnier if those were actual kids that said those things, but from the phrasing they used, it's obviously (IMO) a joke article written for pure comedic value.

 

[Ristamar]

This was posted on the Gaming Age forums awhile back. It was mildly amusing, yet it does seem awfully contrived (The kids don't know what the @%$!%! Tetris is?!? Riiiiight.) However, Mark MacDonald from EGM swore that it was real, though I still find it a bit hard to swallow. I also find myself wanting to smack a few of the little twerps.

 

[Krug]

Seems real to me. Heard similar responses from kids older than these.

 

[RyanL]

I'm not really old enough to have had one of those "red dot" portable electronic football games (26). My older brother did, though, and I used to attempt to play it. I really can't blame the kids for laughing at that particular game.

-Ryan

 

[reapersaurus]

However, Mark MacDonald from EGM swore that it was real, though I still find it a bit hard to swallow.

I GUARANTEE those responses were not real.
Kids simply don't talk that way, with those phrasings.
However, editors DO write that way. I thought it was blatantly obvioys from the references the kids were throwing and wording they used that it was an adult editor writing the article.

Have any of you actually listened to 10-12 year olds talk? They sound NOTHING like the article.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I GUARANTEE those responses were not real.
Kids simply don't talk that way, with those phrasings.
However, editors DO write that way. I thought it was blatantly obvioys from the references the kids were throwing and wording they used that it was an adult editor writing the article.

Have any of you actually listened to 10-12 year olds talk? They sound NOTHING like the article.

Agreed...now...13-14 years olds, that's a different story these days.

 

[mojo1701]

Agreed...now...13-14 years olds, that's a different story these days.

I'm trying to teach those young 'uns about the older games. Those were some of the best. A friend of mine still has an Atari... and still plays it.