Child's play

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EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there--you start all over.

Parker: Are you serious?

EGM: Yep. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.

Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?

Comments

[cpip.livejournal.com]

It taught us perseverance! Hard work! We had to spend time and effort going OUT into the freezing cold and blowing snow, to spend our hard-earned MONEY to play these games! None of this pansy sitting about in our big comfy living rooms playing games with amazing graphics and sound with special cheat codes and memory cards and...

Bah. Children. They're becoming WEAK, I tell you.

[elissa-carey.livejournal.com]

Dude! It's Galaga! That was the king of games for me. Of course I wasn't OK with it, but what are you going to do? Hack the machine? :)

[archangelbeth]

Mmmm, I rocked at that game. I don't know how many quarters I fed it, but I started recognizing the patterns... I got it down to the bottom once.

Taught pattern recognition! O:>

[neintales.livejournal.com]

Heee...

They shoulda made the kids play "Dragon Power"

The first Dragonball-related game that I know of, at any rate...Horrible graphics and hard as hell gameplay! Woo!

[cmccurry.livejournal.com]

How dare they insult Adventure? Little punks should have their graphics intense games taken away from them.

Of course in twenty years they will have to deal with kids saying similar things about their games so there is some kind of balance...