Forget griefers. Here's who can really destroy video games as we know them.
Whom should a gamer fear? Aliens? We clip 'em with a headshot from 200 yards. Mushrooms? We'll stomp 'em flat. Guys with fast cars? Magical summoned demons? Zombie Nazis driving dinosaur mechs? Please.
But in the real world, it's another story. People here can mess us up. He's an absolute nutjob, but anti-gaming crusader and "Seriously? This guy hasn't been disbarred yet?" lawyer Jack Thompson would like nothing better than to see every game, publisher, developer, and even player cast into a giant, Terminator-style pool of molten iron. That can't be good. And he's just the tip of the iceberg.
"Three days filled with specialist lectures delivered by almost 200 speakers, three thematic summits, and over 2600 guests from almost every corner of the world - the capital of Małopolska became the capital of the games industry for a few days.
Organized by the Krakow Technology Park, the Digital Dragons Conference once again showed that Poland is attracting more and more attention from the world's biggest industry tycoons for a reason." - Digital Dragons.
Atari has acquired Intellivision. The company announced today that it had acquired its long-time rival, ending one of the original console rivalries, dating back to the 1970s.
Wow.... two of my earliest gaming platforms. All they need is Coleco to round things out.
This is like Nintendo buying SEGA.
YES! Colecovision was my start! I came to know Mario there in Donkey Kong before the NES was even a thing. :)
Yes such fond memories. My first was the odyssey, but I really started gaming on my colecovision. Had atari and intelivision but coleco was by far the best of the bunch to me.
Good piece of history here.
edit: I wanted to read it but the cookies pop up is stopping me.
This was just before my time. I do remember my mom's friend having one all dusty in her apartment back in the day.
[R.I.P.} Ms. Irene
People forget that console wars are part of the history of this industry. The console wars were started by competitive companies all the way back then and continued through Sega vs Nintendo, Jaguar/3DO/NeonGeo, and PlayStation vs Nintendo and Xbox.
These companies are across oceans and competing for the same business. These companies created the console wars, not crazy fanboys.
Console wars are fun. It's fun to be a fanboy too. I don't get what's wrong with any of this as entertainment.
Young kid school yard banter was fun. 30-40+ year olds still doing it is just disturbing. Many my age (50+) grew out of that a long time ago. We may still have our preferences, but we also embrace a more central position because there is a lot to enjoy on a wide range of genres and systems.
You'll understand one day and then things will forever change.
The only thing back then was that the game would still appear on competing platforms.
Remember the Coleco Vision could play Atari2600 games via an Expansion modude.
I had both. Snafu on Intellivision was addicting as hell. Also had Colecovision which had Time Pilot. Combat was probably my favorite Atari game and both Atari and Intellivision had similar games like Pitfall and Jungle Hunt. It’s been so long I don’t really remember which game I liked bettter out of those but I did play my Intellivision a bit more than Atari though I’m not sure why besides Snafu. That was 40+ years ago damn I’m old lol
Ahh you're making me all nostalgic! Not old enough to have played these on original hardware but my first console was a bootleg console from Costco that had a bunch of intellivision and atari games. Then had a lot of fun with intellivision and atari collections on ps1 and 2.
Snafu was one of my favourite games and me and my partner still occasionally play it to this day
While some video games overwhelm you with sheer scale, titles like Asura's Wrath and Doom Eternal make you the boss player right upfront.
I checked this site for duplicate stories and I could not find one. There are a few "Top Ten" stories floating around but none of them are about the "People Who are Most Dagerous To Videogames" or at least when I did the search nothing like it came up....this is a very interesting read and it contains alot of valid info all Gamers can appreciate. Please let me know what story this is a duplicate of or approve it. Thanks in advance.
To be quite honest, yeah, I quite agree with the article.
Very good article. Its nice to read an intelligent piece of journalism on gaming every once in a while!!!
good read, very good read.
only thing that has me worried is the game's i'll be playing when i have kids myself. i dont want my kids to see gears of war, or to think that's it's ok to cuss and shoot stuff.
i do it too much myself, and i'll be having kids soon enough. i think i can handle it though, i'm not a psycho or a fanboy, and i know what's right and wrong... still i'm worried about all the other media that will get thrown at my kids
Fanboys - please read!
I especially like the section about game shop employees. I've seen many a noob or parent alientated by some idiot who was selling lies - like being charged $5 per Xbox title by MS to play an XBOX game on the 360. And - did you all know Halo is coming to the PSP? Well, according to some dude at a local Gamestop, we can expect it by the end of the year - around the same time as Halo 3.
Also, you CAN afford all systems - after the prices drop. I just bought a PS2 this past Christmas. - And I've had my 360 since lauch, but since I'm a gamer, I had to play some of the PS exclusives - and it will be awhile before I can afford a PS3 - probably Christmas 2008.
You do not need to always have the absolute latest and greatest - and many older games are not only great, they are classics.