Yves MakhoulThe Married Gamer
May 25th 2008 05:52
So, I figure there must be other gamers out there that share a semi-parallel reality to mine...Mid-thirties, married, young children, applying to grad school--basically all of the things that make gaming seem low on the list of priorities...yet you still love shooting aliens through a sniper scope and pretending to know (or care) what anti-alias shading is. Can I get a "what what"?
See, I embarrassed myself there...an opportunity to mention another character trait I believe I share with my brethren, finding themselves largely irrelevant to the latest generation whom excel at irritating us in all of the same ways we annoyed the boomers. MySpace, for instance, seems as ridiculous to me as Nintendo seemed to my parents. I first noticed my dissociation from the pulse of what was cool around the time Pogs came out (and what was all that about, anyway).
Tangent there...ahem. To those of you that only make it halfway through a game because it was the only thing you played for three weeks in half-hour to forty-five minute sessions at a time, peppered by diaper changes and fulfilling the requests made by your wife--this blog is for you. If you have ever found yourself repeating the phrase "I just have to get to the next save point..." to someone that didn't claim you as a tax deduction twenty years ago--this blog is for you. To those of you that ever wondered if a graphics could ever get better than Super Mario Bros. (seriously, remember how much better that looked than Atari?)--this blog is for you.
Or maybe just for me...
That's all I got.
Next time: An actual review...
See, I embarrassed myself there...an opportunity to mention another character trait I believe I share with my brethren, finding themselves largely irrelevant to the latest generation whom excel at irritating us in all of the same ways we annoyed the boomers. MySpace, for instance, seems as ridiculous to me as Nintendo seemed to my parents. I first noticed my dissociation from the pulse of what was cool around the time Pogs came out (and what was all that about, anyway).
Tangent there...ahem. To those of you that only make it halfway through a game because it was the only thing you played for three weeks in half-hour to forty-five minute sessions at a time, peppered by diaper changes and fulfilling the requests made by your wife--this blog is for you. If you have ever found yourself repeating the phrase "I just have to get to the next save point..." to someone that didn't claim you as a tax deduction twenty years ago--this blog is for you. To those of you that ever wondered if a graphics could ever get better than Super Mario Bros. (seriously, remember how much better that looked than Atari?)--this blog is for you.
Or maybe just for me...
That's all I got.
Next time: An actual review...
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