Posted on 12/05/2007 9:02:53 AM PST by Westlander
And did you ever play Joust?!
If given the choice between taking the enemy out or letting them pass, let them pass. Taking them out will give away your position early.
I will be replaying that mission tonight, if I see where you are stuck I will make sure to let you know the “out”.
Cheers,
knewshound
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City kicked some serious butt.
When I was a kid we all played army. We ran around shooting, bayoneting, and blowing each other up. For hours on end. Hmm. Can’t recall ANYONE going to school and blowing people away or otherwise engaging in violent behavior.
“Its a fact. After I started playing Frogger ,I went out and started throwing frogs out on the highway.”
I detect sarcasm, but video games are a drag on society. Everyone knows the negative impact video games have had on society. The following has been proven time and time again like global warming :
Ms. Pac Man turned a lot of 80s chicks to lesbianism as they were eaten 3, possibly four times for a quarter.
Q*Bert was a psychological attack on people with big noses (look at Barbara Streisand before and after Q*bert’s release)
Donkey Kong contributed to global warming as 80s kids equate burning barrel smashing with more points (and we all know that more points = more success). Even more horrendous was promoting the use of pesticides in Donkey Kong 3.
Reactor clearly demonstrated the hazards of nuclear energy. Look at all the meltdowns that have occurred in that game due to negligence and lack of skills. Anyone who thinks nuclear energy is safe is nuts. Play this game...you’ll see.
Missile Command showed that winning a war is impossible. No matter how well you play, there is always “The End”
Frogger has resulted in the deaths of millions of frogs thanks to kids firing the little green creatures onto interstates near ponds (as you pointed out).
Centipede and was an all out slaughter of an ecosystem. Today, kids know no right from wrong when destroying mother earth. Thank you Centipede.
Millipede was a more sinister attempt at slaughtering ecosystems as it promoted the use of DDT to destroy life.
Asteroids was intergalactic iron abuse. It is damn near possible that those rocks were living organisms you know! No one knows what lurks out there in space.
Robotron 2084 was just evil....cyborgs killing living robots that are out to crush the last human family???? The shame of it all. Everything has a right to exist.
Finally, Defender and Stargate promoted transgender behavior as pods captured humans in an effort to mutate them. Yllabian space guppies were also slaughtered. Not only did this game confuse 80s kids sexually, it made them heartless.
Those games are evil and have destroyed the minds of millions of 80s yoots. Atari, Bally, Williams, Sega, Nintendo, and Gottlieb should all be ashamed. It’s all Ronald Reagan’s fault...sitting idle while this vidiot junk corrupted the minds of millions.
They can take my Halo 3 Legendary from my cold dead hands. Also looking forward to GTA 4.
Actually, there’s no actual censorship of video games. Politicians may make such noises, but they’ve been doing that with movies etc. forever and not really getting anywhere.
Any games (ex.: Manhunt 2) that are off the market are so because of licensing issues and retailers’ refusal to stock. Rockstar games could release Manhunt 2 AO tomorrow if they like via direct sale.
Despite all the rhetoric, there isn’t any censorship.
Shopping list!
So who’s giving a similar report about movies?
Tops this week (IMDB):
2 Beowulf (2007) $8.21M $68.9M
4 Hitman (2007) $6.02M $30.4M
5 Awake (2007) $5.86M $5.86M
8 The Mist (2007) $4.55M $19.6M
10 No Country for Old Men (2007) $4.39M $22.9M
Majority of top 10 movies just this week are subject to the same complaints - exactly like the other 51 weeks this year, and every year. What does she have to say about them?
Ooo I see on psu.com’s site that it will (eventually) come to PS3.
Well I am in trouble!!!
My current rotation:
1. Call of Duty 4
2. Gears of War
3. Crysis
4. WarHammer Dawn of War
5. Bioshock
Ever look up where the word ‘pwned’ came from? It’s a take off on the word ‘owned’ but the typist missed the ‘o’ and hit ‘p’ instead.
2006 murder rate tops in nation
By Brendan McCarthy
Staff writer
Using even the most generous population estimate, New Orleans finished 2006 as by far the nation's most murderous city, with more slayings per capita than other notoriously violent cities, including Gary, Ind., and Detroit, according to statistics released Monday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Confirming the long-suspected but grim ranking, the city's 162 homicides gave it a per capita rate in 2006 of anywhere from 63.5 to 72.6 per 100,000 residents, depending on varying population estimates. Even with considerable population gains, the city is on track this year to easily rank among the nation's most murderous cities for 2007.
LOL! perfect.
Crime in the United States
by Metropolitan Statistical Area, 2006
City of New Orleans Population 431,153 Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 162
City of Detroit Population 884,462 Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 418
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_06.html#d
Because these games are only available in Detroit.
I agree that these games can have a negative affect on young boys with no fathers living in violent neighborhoods.
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