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Fear My Pink Line

9 o'clock, November 10, 2003

Someone at Electronic Gaming Monthly — probably someone about my age — had the bright idea of turning loose some of today’s twelve-year-olds on yesterday’s video games, with predictable results:

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.

You’d think at thirty-one I’d be starting to get used to the generation gap. Kids today. I mean, I was never that good at Pong.

Comments

My word, that's depressing. I can remember wanting Pong with all my heart and soul, too.

—— Brandon, 9:39 AM, Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Lousy ankle-biters. I thought the Onion had a good comeback, however.

—— Jon, 10:24 AM, Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I miss Warlords. The only game that came out within the past year or so that I want to play more than the old games was Civ 3 (and maybe HOMM4). I hope this wasn't a representative sample. They seemed pretty bright, but lacking in imagination.

—— Scott Janssens, 12:18 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2003

"Which button do I press to make the blocks explode?" -- Tim Burke, age 11, on Tetris.

I think I'm going to make that my sig quote for the next billion years.

—— David D. Levine, 3:18 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I love that. Actually, the whole Tetris exchange is pretty brilliant — you can tell how frustrated the interviewer’s getting. “Nothing blows up!”

—— David Moles, 4:44 PM, Tuesday, November 11, 2003