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The Story Of Doodle Jump: Brotherly Love And Digital Snacks For this week’s Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk talk about video game controllers. Which controller is better, Xbox or PlayStation? What do touchscreens like the Wii U and the Vita hold for the future? Is the Kinect good for anything? What is the difference between “Effect” and “Affect”?
For this week’s Burning Questions, Jason and Kirk look at how gaming impacts their everyday life. Why is it so hard to maintain a social life and play games? Is there something about some games that is simply incompatible with being social? What games do we like to share with people, and what games do we play alone? Will Kirk ever get a date?
The quotes on the box are marvelous: “I first saw this program in the same week that evidence was discovered of life on Mars. This is more exciting.” That was Douglas Adams. “Call it a game if you like, but this is the most impressive example of artificial life I have seen.” That was Richard Dawkins. It was the summer of 1997; the software was Creatures, for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh. I was nearly 15 years old, but not quite.
One of my earliest memories of video games is also one of the last clear memories I have of my aunt, my father’s sister, Donna. It was cold out, but not quite the holidays. We were sitting on the shag carpet in my grandparents’ house, where she lived, playing Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle. The ColecoVision was plugged into one of those horrible console televisions that looked like it belonged in a cathedral rather than a living room.
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A man is born, lives, loves, loses, dies and restarts in Consoul, an 8-bit movie by Lasse Gjertsen.
I play a lot of video games. But someday, will I be just like Andrew Leonard, a man whose life no longer has room for the leading medium of 30-hour masterpieces? That is what I fear.
Remember when all of those scientist people told us that multicellular life on Earth began about 1.9 billion years ago? New evidence suggests they might have been off by a few hundred million. Is it time for a Spore patch?
