Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The Nintendo Thumb Generation
The other day I saw a commercial for a new video game. I don't recall whether it was for X-Box, PS3, Wii, or some other new must have system, but for my purposes today it doesn't really matter either way.
I like video games, really I do. I am not a "gamer", no one in my house is either, but we like them well enough.
Since this was a commercial for a collection of video game versions of "family" games, my ears perked up.
Life, ok.
UNO, cool.
Checkers, alright.
Twister, ummm....what????
How in the hell do you play a video game version of freakin' Twister????? Seriously, where is the fun in that? How on Earth can that be the slightest bit fulfilling? Unless you are sprawled out across your living room floor with someones butt in your face, it's not Twister.
Again, I like video games, but I think they have gone a bit far.
We are too (fill in the blank 'cuase I can't think of a word other than pathetic) of a society that we/our kids don't even go outside to play basketball or.... run!
I think if the trend in video games is to be more realistic, then those fishing games should go something like this:
Upon pushing play, you are required to pay $15 real dollars for a fishing license. Then the controller squirts worm guts on your hand while simultaneously stabbing you in the finger. When you cast for the first time your line will get stuck in the tree above you, which may or may not be the exact location of a killer bee hive depending on the level. You will be required to spend 45 min. trying to untangle the line. After successfully casting the second time, you must sit in motionless silence about 30 min. until you are then attacked in the ear by mosquitoes that suddenly appear hovering around your couch. Once you have managed to spray yourself in the eye with bug repellent, you get a bite and reel in the infamous stick fish that has miraculously eaten your bait. Only after 4 hours of game play will you catch a fish. At which point it will have either swallowed the hook or been caught in the eye, either way it is now floating in the water in front of you, taunting you for the remainder of this game.
I like video games, really I do. I am not a "gamer", no one in my house is either, but we like them well enough.
Since this was a commercial for a collection of video game versions of "family" games, my ears perked up.
Life, ok.
UNO, cool.
Checkers, alright.
Twister, ummm....what????
How in the hell do you play a video game version of freakin' Twister????? Seriously, where is the fun in that? How on Earth can that be the slightest bit fulfilling? Unless you are sprawled out across your living room floor with someones butt in your face, it's not Twister.
Again, I like video games, but I think they have gone a bit far.
We are too (fill in the blank 'cuase I can't think of a word other than pathetic) of a society that we/our kids don't even go outside to play basketball or.... run!
I think if the trend in video games is to be more realistic, then those fishing games should go something like this:
Upon pushing play, you are required to pay $15 real dollars for a fishing license. Then the controller squirts worm guts on your hand while simultaneously stabbing you in the finger. When you cast for the first time your line will get stuck in the tree above you, which may or may not be the exact location of a killer bee hive depending on the level. You will be required to spend 45 min. trying to untangle the line. After successfully casting the second time, you must sit in motionless silence about 30 min. until you are then attacked in the ear by mosquitoes that suddenly appear hovering around your couch. Once you have managed to spray yourself in the eye with bug repellent, you get a bite and reel in the infamous stick fish that has miraculously eaten your bait. Only after 4 hours of game play will you catch a fish. At which point it will have either swallowed the hook or been caught in the eye, either way it is now floating in the water in front of you, taunting you for the remainder of this game.
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