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Are some games too fast or am I too old?
RandyT:
--- Quote from: tommyinajar on September 21, 2022, 10:52:53 am ---Short while later, I fired up Donkey Kong for the 15-button combo xbox kids.... It took them an hour to get to the second level... :)
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Heh. That's a good point. Saw the same with the son of a buddy of mine. He could probably get into lower tier e-sports with call of duty games, but the oldies kicked his butt. He got frustrated and quit :)
KenToad:
My 11 year old son loves video games, but he will not play old or even new arcade games unless there's a crowd of interested people. To be fair, the arcade games were designed to kill you in 2-3 minutes and that's 2-3 minutes he could have spent pretending to be a super soldier.
People are bad at arcade games because they don't have the time or desire to get good. Only a small percentage of people lack the dexterity because of age or whatever.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: KenToad on September 21, 2022, 01:00:03 pm ---My 11 year old son loves video games, but he will not play old or even new arcade games unless there's a crowd of interested people. To be fair, the arcade games were designed to kill you in 2-3 minutes and that's 2-3 minutes he could have spent pretending to be a super soldier.
People are bad at arcade games because they don't have the time or desire to get good. Only a small percentage of people lack the dexterity because of age or whatever.
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I'll go along with that. It's true that nothing makes you play better than people standing behind you who have their quarters on the machine :)
negative1:
--- Quote from: RandyT on September 21, 2022, 01:19:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: KenToad on September 21, 2022, 01:00:03 pm ---My 11 year old son loves video games, but he will not play old or even new arcade games unless there's a crowd of interested people. To be fair, the arcade games were designed to kill you in 2-3 minutes and that's 2-3 minutes he could have spent pretending to be a super soldier.
People are bad at arcade games because they don't have the time or desire to get good. Only a small percentage of people lack the dexterity because of age or whatever.
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I'll go along with that. It's true that nothing makes you play better than people standing behind you who have their quarters on the machine :)
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i disagree completely.
i don't want anyone watching in person, i don't care if there's a crowd or not.
it's me vs the machine, that's all that matters.
10 or 100 people wouldn't make any difference at all.
i don't want people distracting me, or making noise. in fact, i'm pretty sure i had my walkman on,
so i couldn't hear anyone either when playing in the arcades.
later
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: negative1 on September 22, 2022, 08:41:42 am ---it's me vs the machine, that's all that matters.
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I'm sure it's a personal thing and can see how performance anxiety/distractions could get in the way. But there's no greater unspoken compliment in the arcade than someone taking their quarter back off the machine when they realize that they'll be waiting longer than they thought.
It's also different on your own machine as you can play it as often as you like without needing to give it up after a game. Wasn't like that in the old days. The better you played, the longer that machine was yours, and I did my darndest to hang onto it as long as I could ;)