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- From: kennyy@bmerh579 (Kenny Yan)
- Subject: Re: Interesting Viewpoint on Kids vs. Grownups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.185222.8198@bmers145.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research
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- References: <1993Jan21.151122.22319@walter.bellcore.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:52:22 GMT
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- I noticed the same thing about myself. I'm 25, with no kids.
- I practically grew up playing video games, either in the arcade
- (from Space Invaders on, I've played everything!) or with my
- computers. (Pet, Atari 8-bit, Atari 16-bit).
-
- By the time I got my Atari ST, I was in university, and I noticed
- I wasn't playing as many games as I wanted. But I have all these
- games waiting for me to play. When I graduated and started work,
- I moved to a smaller city (Ottawa), and I thought, "There's nothing
- to do in Ottawa, so I'll spend all my time playing games. I should
- catch up on my RPGs by next year."
-
- That was 3 years ago. I have only completed ONE of about 10 games I've
- lined up for myself. The other spare time went to studying things,
- COOKING, and vegging in front of the TV. Sometimes I don't even want
- to start a game because I know I can't afford to spend an hour a day
- playing it.
-
- Which is why I now have an SNES with SF2, FF2 and Zelda. Relatively
- mindless, can save almost anywhere (not SF2, of course).
-
- About strategy games, I've also became less patient with them. I
- distinctingly remember being like a little kid and trying everything,
- and now I've became more afraid because "I'll have to start over
- again!"
-
- How did this happen to me?
-
- .sigh..
-
- Kenny Yan, kennyy@bnr.ca
- The above is not a BNR opinion/view/comment/press release.
-