Monday, November 17, 2008

How far we've come

Hey JesseRay,

Funny you should mention Frogger, because I spent most of my weekend playing Smackdown Vs. Raw 2009 on my Playstation 3. Seriously, we're talking, like 9 straight hours of sitting on the futon and jamming buttons.

But I must say, it's scary how far video games have come. To think that you and your friends used to gawk at Pong and think "Wow! They'll NEVER have anything more innovative than this!"

I'd like to pretend this was an issue with your generation, and that mine was far more advanced, and expected better things in due time. But that's not true. I've been through a Sega Master System, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Game Cube, PSone, PS2, and PS3 (and wii) and every time I would think "yep. this is it. never getting any better!" And then they do.

Hell, I remember thinking that portable phones and pagers were the end of the road. Then Zack Morris popped up with a cell phone bigger than a box of crackers and the world would never be the same.

But I must admit, I no longer think we've reached the end of anything. I'm waiting for my PS4 to cook me breakfast and take my future dog out for a walk. I want my cell phone to teach me how to dance (and then dance with me). And someday the apartment of tomorrow will have time travel technology and my studio on the Upper East Side can become a pied a terre in Paris with the flick of a switch.

Nice first post, by the way. Glad to see you figured out how blogger works. Did you know you can play Frogger online for free? Now you can Blog and Frog at the same time!

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