] 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. Kindly address all knee-jerk
] missives to EGM@ziffdavis.com.

[ One ought not to be surprised by modern kids talking trash about old games. It interesting to see the dynamics though... the way the kids think about Mike Tyson, and the cache to be found in the original Zelda, in which the "old school" factor makes it cool. As cultural data, I find this very interesting stuff. -k]