I was born at just the right time.  I was at the perfect age when video games first came out that I was completely enthralled by them and I’ve been hooked ever since.  I also have been able to watch them grow and become more complex and quite realistic over the years.  However, as with anything, bells and whistles are fine at first, but if you don’t have engaging content then you’re finished.  Nowadays it seems that the visuals are the first and foremost thing that games are being measured by, with actual content and gameplay being pushed into the background.  That point was driven home a few days ago when I forgot my phone at home and was checking my voicemail from the phone at the bike shop.

I got a call from Whitfield.  He left a voicemail that cracked me up and brought a smile to my face.  It seems that his kids, age 3 and 6, only want to play the game(s) that I left over at his pad last week.  No, they aren’t Deathslayer 6 or Super Gnarlball 3D:Championship Edition (fictitious titles, by the way).  They were compilation discs with Pacman and Gauntlet and Pole Position and a whole bunch of games
that were released in the early 80s during the infancy of the whole video game phenomenon.  Remember when video games were a quarter to play?  Now Alex and Tyson are forgetting all about Star Wars Lego games and playing Gauntlet!  “Valkyrie needs food badly…”

I love it.

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