![]() ![]() Today they are played almost exclusively by teen-age boys or by young children. ![]() In the 70s and 80s, people of all ages played video games. Sowhat went wrong? How did the clever video games of this golden age degrade into the mind numbing, incredibly stupid games of today? I can see four causes, and Ill be happy to explain them here.Ĭause 1: Todays players are incredibly stupid Compared to todays games, the 70s and 80s seem like a golden age of video games. Most of these games relied on fast response, but the players could actually apply reasoning. If the player was represented by a character on the board, that character was usually just a stick figure or a small round cartoon face. (Chips Challenge is now played as a computer game, but it started life on the hand-held Atari Lynx.) The games usually had a top-down view that let you see the entire game board. I hope there are those of you who remember the games of the 1970s and 1980sgames like Berserk, Q-Bert, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Tetris, and the brilliant Chips Challenge. Whats really depressing about video games is they used to be pretty good. One or two of these games show some promise, but I wont address them in this diatribe. There are a few games, mostly available on personal computers, that follow other formats. Those two formats comprise the majority of the games. Wow, thats really excitingif youre five years old. There are other characters going around the course and the hero is racing them. In another type of game you are again behind the hero, who is on a skateboard or in a cart, and he goes around a course. And thats it! Thats all that happens! Over and over again! Of course, its very realistically drawn and you feel like you are almost there. You follow the hero as he travels down one passageway, looks around a corner, travels down another passageway, then shoots at something. But what happens in them? Well, most of the time you have a view from behind the hero. Have you seen video games lately? The graphics are great, the music is impressive, and they are so realistic you feel you are almost watching a movie. Video Games Are Incredibly Stupid! First posted: August, 2001 ![]()
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