old guys, meet the new guys. old guys, take out the trash.

This exchange was pretty funny, though:

EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there-you start all over.

Parker: Are you serious?

EGM: Yup. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.

Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?

EGM: Do you feel badly shooting the humans?

Parker: No, that's my only amusement in this game. If they were like more detailed, maybe I'd feel something. But it looks like I'm shooting a popcycle.

yeah, i saw this posted yesterday on slashdot. pretty funny. kinda sad, though, too.

You guys need to play video games with really little kids. Got my 5 yr. old twins Gamecube for the holidays, and they're loving Galaga, PacMan, PolePosition & especially DigDug. Of course, they also love Tony Hawk, but I refuse to play any of that stuff with good graphics.

man, the first tony hawk was revelatory for me - and i was on boatloads of chemicals, too, so it's sort of etched into my neuronal circuitry.