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Child's Play I+II - Little Kids Commenting on Yesterdays Games - Funny Stuff

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Here are two long pieces which provide transcripts of an experiment where kids of today (age about 10-13) are allowed to play games from 1970s-1980s and their reactions are transcribed.  Some great stuff..

Donkey Kong is "lame." Tetris is "boring." Space Invaders "needs a superbomb or something." And why play Pong when it's more fun to "jump up and down on one foot"? Hey, save your irate letters--we didn't say this stuff. The nostalgia-nuking commentary is from our original Child's Play story in EGM's November 2003 issue, in which we had kids of the PlayStation generation playtest classic games from the '70s and '80s. Mortified gaming grown-ups wrote in to call it blasphemy--and call these outspoken scamps a name that rhymes with "brittle truckers."

It was our most popular article ever. So we're doing it again, with a new batch of brittle truckers and a new bucket of classic games.

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