Oh, How Far We’ve Come

After a long day of trying not to tell people that JavaScript really isn’t that hard, I grabbed my daily plate of pizza rolls (just kidding… I don’t eat pizza rolls every day anymore), sat down on the couch and watched Luke and his pal attempt to navigate their newest Xbox addition, Portal 2. If you haven’t heard of it, consider yourself lucky. Basically, it’s an exaggerated version of Super Mario Bros (the one I played when I was a kid, none of this new garbage), but way more frustrating. When did video games move from being an outlet for dumb, mindless after school entertainment to this beyond extreme, obsessively complicated, emotionally manipulative garbage?

As many of you know, I still have all the game consoles from my youngest years to beyond my college days. And yes, I still play them from time to time. But I feel like… no… I’m sure these kids today do not appreciate what they have in front of them. I remember just getting the dang Nintendo to work after a half hour of smacking the sides and blowing into the stupid game being the greatest moment of my life. And every time I got it to work after that was the newest greatest moment in my life. And playing the game? Man! Don’t even get me started.

So what happened. How did we get from there to here?

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