EGM gives today's kids yesterday's games
 

Found this on Fark, so maybe some of you have seen it already.

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

EGM got some kids (12, 13 years old or so) to sit down and play some real old school games, like Pong, Donkey Kong, and that horrid E.T. game for the Atari. The article is the transcript of what the kids said as they were playing. It's pretty damn funny.

The comments seem a little to consistently witty to have been made by some snot-nosed kids, so I suspect EGM might have doctored things a bit. Nonetheless, it's a good read.

Very funny article. I would guess that EGM edited it, but I was rather verbose as a kid, and these kid were probably chosen because they were articulate.

Wow, those kids are pretty articulate to be 11-13, wouldn't you think? The 11-13 year olds that I know can barely string an audible sentence together. This has given me a new-found admiration for kids. (But don't get me wrong, I still hate the snivling little bastards.)

*Edit: Holy crap, I just read the E.T. comments. Where the hell did these kids learn to talk like that?

"Brian: A flower grew!
Kirk: Piss on it."

I would have gotten my ass beat if I talked like that when I was younger.

I clicked the link and got nothing.. Its customary to post the article along with the link... I'd read it but i cannot :(

The article is to big to post, so I'll just put in a couple of the reviews.

Sorry GakFace, but yea, I thought it was a little too big to post in its entirety. The link seems to be still be working, so I guess it isn't Farked yet. I wonder why you can't see it?

cause it was slashdotted earlier this week as well.. keep tying Gakface

It's working for me. I wonder if those kids really said all of that stuff. Kinda smart assish for 11 year olds....but maybe not? How could those kids not like tetris, that game is still around, for GBA and Nintendo 64.

"It's a Wonderful Life" said it right:

Youth is wasted on the wrong people.

Damn. I thought everybody knew how to play Tetris. Little bastards...

I don't like those kids.

They speak like they're characters from Dawsons Creek, the little fuckers.

Stupid kids! Insulting what was great back then. Little bastards shoul;d be bound, gagged, and shot!

those games are still great, and agree with that second part

This article has depicted a bleak future. I'm going to cry after I finish typing this.
As a result of this, my kids will start out with Ataris and work their way up through the years. No PS4s for them, no matter how cool they are. I'll teach them to respect the roots of gaming.

LOL

But it is sad to see how those games were disrepected, Mario and Space Invaders both got trashed. Personally a good game of Space Invaders or Pac Man with friends is more fun than a game of GTA III, at least to me anyway...

Very funny. Reminded me of myself and my friends at that age. Foul-mouthed (when parents absent) rude and put down everything. I thought the tetris comments were the best.

Back in my day we were lucky if we had 2 buttons and 3 pixels, and we had to program all the commands ourselves.

Some of the first games I played were programs that I typed in at age six or so, from Byte magazine.