Another OT: Old games...

Last night, I had the house to myself for a couple hours. I ran a couple dungeons and then looked and saw the family was due home within the next 1/2 hour or so and didn't want to be in the middle of an instance when they came home. So I logged out an set up a present I had gotten from a relative on the big screen in the living room...An "Atari Flashback" system, which looks like a mini Atari 2600, comes with two of the regular joysticks and has 40 or so built in games. I figured "what the hell...why not". So I set this up and am playing it with memories coming back to me, when my 9 yo comes home. She see's this and the conversation goes:

her: what is THAT!?"
me: These are the video games daddy played when he was your age. The graphics are bad, but they're still fun
her: Oh...your right, they look like baby games..What do you have to do?"
me: "Baby games?!? Ok smarty - it's simple...In this one, that's your spaceship and you shoot the big color things floating around...those are asteroids. You turn left this way and right this way...Up moves your ship, down makes your ship disappear and brings it back somewhere else...Use that in emergency.
her: that's it?
me: that's it.
her: how do you win?
me: when you shoot all the rocks.
her: That's so baby-ish!!
me: Hah - OK - here you go...do it then...

Long story short, after many deaths she didn't think it was so easy anymore...lol

With a rather large smile, I took the joystick back and proceeded to kick her butt, as she particularly loves to remind me all the time every game of "Mario Cart"....or any of her DS or Wii games for that matter...

I told her the games back then were simple...you could explain a game or figure out what you were supposed to do in 15 seconds and get right to the fun. There was only one dang button and a joystick....Yea the graphics were real bad, but we played a few more games of Asteroids and then Yar's Revenge for an hour together before bedtime.... lol

Yea, Yea....give here a little while to get used to it and she'll be wiping the floor with me....But at least give me the satisfaction for a few days... :)
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