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Remember that article last year about the kids who were sat down to play old arcade games? Well, the same magazine is going back for part 2.

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 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.

My personal favorites:

EGM: Do you identify with this dot?

Garret: No. The dot is small. I am not.

Bobby: Yeah. My best friend, he looks just like this dot: small, handsome, and adventurous.

The old-skool reference…

Bobby: This is like Pong. Everybody thought it was amazing and good, but now we’re just thinking, “Oh, it’s only a good loading screen for Test Drive.”

I don’t think I have any games that I’m this attached to (innocent look)…

EGM: What will you say when your kids say [your games] looks boring?

Parker: Get out of my house. You’re out of my will.

Garret: It’s so retro.

EGM: What does retro mean to you?

Parker: Like, old and outdated.

Links 11:45 AM, 12.28.04

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