Comments on: FUTURE SHOCK: Gaming in the Post Recession World

By: Ismael Solis

Ismael Solis — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:35:29 +0000

I long for the innocence of these types of games - rather that the gang-related nonsense or gore fests, we have today!

By: P90 Workout

P90 Workout — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:23:03 +0000

Haaaa… Reading the "Dodge The Lava" excerpt killed me. I STILL play that.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:00:27 +0000

Two of these are "video games", two are "social games", and one is a toy... Where are the millions of board games? Sure, it might take you ten years of collecting in the wilderness to finally get your hands on that little shoe, but monopoly will probably stay. And even if it doesn't, what about kalaha, checkers, chess, and all the other types of games that anyone can really make a good board for with a bit of dirt and some markers? Nah, I figure this was written as a joke, but in my experience jokes are more fun if they come off serious. And on the serious scale, this is a joke.

By: RpgFan

RpgFan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:55:54 +0000

I remember a slightly different lava game that my cousins and I played, one that was inspired by the old NES game Super Mario Bros. Everybody (the Koopa troop) was supposed to go try and tag you (Super Mario) before you "saved the Princess". I suppose it could have been inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog CD instead if we had known about it then. There was a LOT more to avoid in that game, and you got to save Emi/Amy the Hedgehog, not to mention it had the fast-paced game-play required. It would have been acid or something instead of lava if that were the case though. As for the Sonic.xls game, I've played it, but I've never cared for it. It bases things on the Sonic Advance series for the GBA, and I'm not a fan of them at all (the physics are far too different from the Sonic games I first started playing on the Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive). Now that I've drifted down memory lane, I think I'll go play Sonic Drift in Sonic Adventure DX now... ^_^

By: FJGamer

FJGamer — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:48:27 +0000

I remember saying the ground was lava and trying to get from the swing set to the highest point in the playground. A lot of climbing and leaping was involved.

By: Ryan Henson Creighton

Ryan Henson Creighton — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:25:07 +0000

You laugh, but kid-themed Russian Roulette has been aroudn for a good long time. i remember playing Curse of the Cobras back when i was a kid in the 80's:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9664

It made such an impression on my that one of the first games i developed while at YTV, Improbability, used the same concept: as an imp who comes to a retirement community to get Hallowe'en candy one night too early, knock on as many doors as you can before you find the one with the lucid old woman who sees you for what you are and … well, kills you.

http://www.ytv.com/gamepad/play/games/imp1/play.asp#top