Here’s some lighter news to help all you players out there settle back into the work week grind.
Our fellow stalwart champions of old-school gaming over at Nerdballoon have recently started a little something called “Project D”, in which older, more experienced gamers sit down with their youngling counterparts to try and beat some appreciation of classic digital entertainment into their media-corrupted minds. This of course can only lead to tragedy.
Episode 1 – has just been uploaded, in which we get to hear a slightly less than open-minded 11-year-old attempt to survive a session of Contra. Surprisingly, the graphics “suck”, and the game is not as approachable as “Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War”. Oh, and I almost forgot, the music is “boring”.
Bottom line, this is an intriuging concept, and I long to see how today’s gamers deal with things like merciless halfway points, one-hit kills, and all other variety of challenges from the 8-bit era. Please find the link and video after the break.
