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Old School Arcade
Jun 30 2010, 8:56 am
By: StarBlue  

Jun 30 2010, 8:56 am StarBlue Post #1



Today's generation has come out with the wii, xbox 360, ps3, ipod touch, nintendo DS, and multiple games for said systems, but NO ONE can forget the classics, what started it all. The old school games Tetris, Asteroids, pac-man, and thousands of others. Not much people give it much thought, but if it weren't for asteroids, we probably wouldn't have any of the other shooter games we have now.



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Jun 30 2010, 10:44 am Sand Wraith Post #2

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The video game industry recently developed many video game consoles and devices such as the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, and multiple games for the mentioned consoles. Despite the prominence of the video game industry in the North American continent, there are not many people who recall the classic video game consoles and games. The "old school" games of the past generations include Tetris, Asteroids, Pac-man, and thousands of others. The many people who do not reflect upon the past generations of video games and consoles do not realize that if it were not for early video game titles such as Asteroids, the present video game generation would be without many of its current games. For example, Asteroids spawned the "shooter" genre of video games. Thus, they do not reach the level of appreciation for video games that the generations of people who have experienced the "classic" video games reach.

I have attempted to fix your introductory paragraph. There are still many errors and you are short on specific points of argument. Ultimately, you are lacking of a well-defined thesis. I recommend reflecting on what you want the reader to know because your thesis in its present state is very ambiguous. You should do some more brainstorming on what you really want to say.

I stress that the weakest factor in your paragraph is the lack of a specific topic. Without it, you will be incapable of providing sufficient arguments to the reader.

Additionally, to generalize the population by saying that the majority of people do not think back to "classic" video games is an example of a common mistake in writing, especially when there is no proof or evidence to support such a generalization. Such generalizations are only claims without proof to support it.




Jun 30 2010, 12:13 pm NudeRaider Post #3

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

I think Sand Wraith is right.
I do agree that the younger generation doesn't appreciate the classics as they should but there's nothing in your paragraph that would stimulate a response from me. Except maybe that when I was a kid my dad made a funny photo of me playing a pac-man clone. :D




Jun 30 2010, 4:29 pm Dem0n Post #4

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Pac-Man is fun. :O




Jun 30 2010, 4:40 pm Centreri Post #5

Relatively ancient and inactive

Why should people appreciate an outdated and less interesting game? I definitely don't appreciate Pacman or Asteroids. If they didn't exist, some other game would've.



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Jun 30 2010, 5:06 pm Sand Wraith Post #6

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My favourite classics are World of WarCraft, Gears of War 2, StarCraft, Final Fantasy 7, Chess, Spin the Bottle, and Diablo 5.




Jun 30 2010, 6:00 pm lil-Inferno Post #7

Just here for the pie

The only classics I appreciate are the original NES Mario and Zelda games ;o. Pac-man is awesome, too.




Jun 30 2010, 6:19 pm StarBlue Post #8



Chess, there are alot of people who do, and alot of people who don't appreciate Chess. Personally I think chess is really fun, no one ever likes to verse me at it though. I guess I always beat them, or they just hate the game... or they hate the game because I beat thm, or the other way around... anyways, Chess and Checkers are awesome.



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Jun 30 2010, 6:29 pm LoTu)S Post #9



Reading the first post, all i see are statements. So i'll just be like the other ppl.

Any old school Super Mario game im a fan of. A personal favorite is Pong. >;p



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Jun 30 2010, 6:54 pm Demented Shaman Post #10



New generation is spoiled with graphics and 3D and crap.



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Jun 30 2010, 7:21 pm StarBlue Post #11



Pong, that's another great classic, it made a gateway to a whole new generation of games... like that one where you break the block by bouncing a ball off a platform, sorry forgot the name.



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Jun 30 2010, 7:36 pm NudeRaider Post #12

We can't explain the universe, just describe it; and we don't know whether our theories are true, we just know they're not wrong. >Harald Lesch

Arkanoid




Jul 5 2010, 3:06 pm rockz Post #13

ᴄʜᴇᴇsᴇ ɪᴛ!

wacky wheels.



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Jul 5 2010, 3:26 pm lil-Inferno Post #14

Just here for the pie

Quote from StarBlue
Pong, that's another great classic, it made a gateway to a whole new generation of games... like that one where you break the block by bouncing a ball off a platform, sorry forgot the name.
Obviously seeing as it's the first commercially successful video game ever. :|




Jul 6 2010, 1:08 pm MadZombie Post #15



F-Zero

no no wait what was that game where you were this motorcross dirt bike thing for the snes? Super motocross? Or maybe it was excitebike or something like that. IT came with that cartridge that had four games in it. :3



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Jul 6 2010, 2:40 pm StarBlue Post #16



it was excitebike



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Jul 20 2010, 2:07 pm Generalpie Post #17

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it was excitebike

Now they have the next generation ExciteBots
Not as great as excitebike... fail on nintendo's part :facepalm:



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