I'm getting old boys. While I was at Disney the past few days I had several observations that made me sad. That made me feel like I'm going to miss what's about to come next.

1. For the last three years I've brought my 3DS and I've always managed to get a few streetpass meetings. This year, none. I didn't see any kids playing a 3DS for that matter. Just lots and lots of tablets and phones.

2. While at Disney we I spent some time in a couple different arcades across the properties. All of the new games, are basically giant mobile games and most of them used vertical screens with the same dimensions of an iPhone. They had a big Doodlejump game, a big Temple Run game, and a big Fruit Ninja game. They even had a new Pac-Man, but it was on a vertical layout screen.

3. Amazon was giving away $220 in apps on their digital app store. Most were uninteresting, but Terraria was available and I'd wanted that for a while so I grabbed it. After installing it, I couldn't figure out how to play it. The game didn't have a clearly marked controller set up. My son asked if he could given it a try, and within 30 seconds he was playing the game. I was reminded of Christmas 1987 when I got my NES. My dad hooked it up, but he wasn't able to figure out how to work the controller when I invited him to play Super Mario Bros with me.

And just like that I turned into my father. I'm now the old guy who can't figure out a controller. Damn...

Posted by robio Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:44:07 (comments: 21)
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Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:51:14

LOLHmm, I have several Temple Run games, and Fruit Ninja is one of my favorite tablet arcade games, but I've never heard of Doodlejump or Terraria. I'll have to check those out if they are on my older Kindle Fire.

EDIT: Both are free on Kindle. Downloading now.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:59:09

Okay, I guess I'm not a video game dinosaur yet, because I was able to figure out how to play Terraria within 30 seconds. It basically uses NES-styled controls via a virtual joystick and button.

EDIT: So it's a side scrolling Minecraft-ish game. Interesting.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:06:29

Well I can barely get through the menus on Smash Bros.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:07:35
No it's not you, these controls suck balls, you had the good stuff the kids now are just used to crap.
 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:41:20

Touchscreen controls take some getting used to, but they work well enough for most moble games. I'll always prefer having real sticks and buttons, though.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:58:01

Don't ever buy a GTA game on a tablet.  I could never get used to touch screen controls for that.  Year Walk is good, but short.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:59:58

Amazon has the GTA Chinatown Wars for $3. It's an overhead game, so that might control okay on a tablet..

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 17:21:50

So cOLD in here. Nyaa

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:51:34

Respect for your elders is a sign of characters.

 
Fri, 26 Dec 2014 18:53:55
Ravenprose said:

Okay, I guess I'm not a video game dinosaur yet, because I was able to figure out how to play Terraria within 30 seconds. It basically uses NES-styled controls via a virtual joystick and button.

EDIT: So it's a side scrolling Minecraft-ish game. Interesting.

Yeah after the boy showed me it clicked. Since I didn't see a virtual joystick, I just assumed it just had a set of touch controls more like Minecraft (touch the brick to destroy it). Damn invisible joysticks making me feel dumb.

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