Pass It On: Present-Day Pac-Man Looks Even More Infuriating Than The Original
In some ways video games have gotten better. In other ways, they've gotten much, much worse.
Sometimes I’ll be playing a video game and I’ll just have to stop and marvel for a second at the sheer technological artistry of what I’m seeing. I grew up in a Commodore era. I remember having to choose between 4-colour EGA and 16-colour VGA graphics. I remember how goddamn incredible it seemed for a game to have 16 whole colours. 16! Can you even name that many colours?
And then you play Call of Duty 3 and the game lets you blow up the goddamn Eiffel Tower.
But then again, there’s also a lot of crap that goes into the modern gaming experience, from phoned-in DLC to broken server connections, to the constant updating, to the useless achievements, endless networking and bizarrely expensive and completely useless in-game upgrades. We didn’t need any of that when we were playing Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? We just grabbed our trusty old almanac and off we went!
In a little over 80 seconds, this video basically points out everything that is wrong with the modern gaming experience. Bonus points for using the phrase “Kimmy Gobbler”.
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