hadouken, anyone?
I've recently bought myself a Nintendo Wii and a DS. I haven't really played games in ages. I didn't think I'd be interested, so I thought this would turn out to be an expensive mistake - but I am. In my absence games have really advanced. They're much more celebral and well-planned now - and they're weirder to boot. Check out Trauma Center, The Sims (seen here re-enacting a well-known sequence from American Beauty), Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney or the Jodorowsky-meets-Akira-like No More Heroes.
The press is better, the gamers are better-looking and the sexes are way more balanced (when I was a kid seeing a girl playing an arcade game was as common as seeing the Fenech Adamis strolling down Testaferrata Street/Rue d'Aarschot in bondage).
Anyways.
There's fuck all good about growing old. For starters all the cultural references you took for granted aren't shared by the younger generation of gamers.
Do you know what a hadouken is? 'course you do. To me it was a foregone conclusion that so did the yoof of today. They don't. They didn't grow up playing Street Fighter and Street Fighter II (and faux-smoking Marlboros or Dunhills [i.e. exhaling without inhaling]) and in constant trepidation of their dads bursting through the door like we did.
And by the way, when your dad will eventually come looking for you in a seething rage (and he will - work plus family life seem to make most dads irritable), your panic-stricken friend will say the cigarette is yours and you'll say it's his. He'll understand you're actually sharing one of his Dunhills (he would have understood that even if you didn't say anything, cuz he's a cheap bastard who's been keeping tabs on how many cigarettes he's got left in his packet), you'll get in trouble, he'll tell your friends' parents and you'll both get grounded (don't think spanking and booting is still the norm nowadays).
The proper way to play a video game when you're 13 or 14 is at your local bar or kazin. Preferably pretending to be someone you're not (cigarettes help) to impress your friend/s. No Xbox 360 or Playstation III plus plasma screen can emulate that feeling. Or maybe it can - see how out of touch I really am?
The press is better, the gamers are better-looking and the sexes are way more balanced (when I was a kid seeing a girl playing an arcade game was as common as seeing the Fenech Adamis strolling down Testaferrata Street/Rue d'Aarschot in bondage).
Anyways.
There's fuck all good about growing old. For starters all the cultural references you took for granted aren't shared by the younger generation of gamers.
Do you know what a hadouken is? 'course you do. To me it was a foregone conclusion that so did the yoof of today. They don't. They didn't grow up playing Street Fighter and Street Fighter II (and faux-smoking Marlboros or Dunhills [i.e. exhaling without inhaling]) and in constant trepidation of their dads bursting through the door like we did.
And by the way, when your dad will eventually come looking for you in a seething rage (and he will - work plus family life seem to make most dads irritable), your panic-stricken friend will say the cigarette is yours and you'll say it's his. He'll understand you're actually sharing one of his Dunhills (he would have understood that even if you didn't say anything, cuz he's a cheap bastard who's been keeping tabs on how many cigarettes he's got left in his packet), you'll get in trouble, he'll tell your friends' parents and you'll both get grounded (don't think spanking and booting is still the norm nowadays).
The proper way to play a video game when you're 13 or 14 is at your local bar or kazin. Preferably pretending to be someone you're not (cigarettes help) to impress your friend/s. No Xbox 360 or Playstation III plus plasma screen can emulate that feeling. Or maybe it can - see how out of touch I really am?
posted by gybexi at dijous, de novembre 16, 2006
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