i’ve taken up playstation coaching. my son has the mad controller skills, but i’m the strategist. i tell him things like, when you’ve gotten safely past the monster, don’t go back and jump on him just for fun. the point is, you’ve passed him, and if you go back, he has the chance to get you again. hmm. could apply to a lot of things.
anyway, (forgive me, i’m slow sometimes) at some point i realized i had the internet here. internet. gamers. mmhmm. and there we were against the monster at the end of level four, and it seemed unbeatable. i type in ‘beat n gin crash warped’ in google and lo and behold. specific instructions. he beat that monster on the first try with me telling him the exact weak points of the robot and then the spaceship. we make a good team.
and boy, wait till he’s done with the game and i tell him about all the extra super secret levels and special tricks you can do! there’s at least half again as much of the game that’s hidden away in secret places. i can see that this could get verrrrrrrrry addictive. oh man, i love the internet.
You know, if you keep that up, he’ll likely grow up to be a man who actually does ask for directions, and then where will the stereotype be?
he’s not listening to me when i tell him to go to bed though. just about the game. he’s about halfway through the last level, and he wants to finish. i know, i know, i know what time it is. we’re people that sleep and stay up late.
*sigh*
I beg of you, don’t buy Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. Either he’ll hate it, and it will be a waste of money, or he’ll be addicted and you won’t ever get him to go to sleep ever again.
what game are you talking about? (i’m not into playstation gaming – just pc…)
She’s talking about Crash Bandicoot, if I’m not too much mistaken.
Only game I get around to these days is Counterstrike, the multiplayer aspect is addictive.
I’m getting back into real-life gaming though, the Warhammer 40000 universe (Games Workshop) has reeled me in again, just got out all my old rule-books.
Still unsure as to whether to get the Playstation 1 though
Seems like you enjoyed your day off. I could be bad and say thanks to the guy who decided to hang…….. but I won’t. That’s just not funny at all. Bye.
So, if I had had the Internet when I started playing the Legend of Zelda (v.1) all those many years ago, I wouldn’t have wasted 3 months of my life trying to figure out where all those “hidden spots” were? I won’t get into how much time I spent on all the versions of Mario, either… I’m so ashamed of myself.
Are you the coolest mom ever? I think you are. I’ve been a PC-only player since my family ditched Atari, and even I know how cool that is.
Careful, those games will rot your brain. Stick to something educational, like watching soap operas.
he’s now got 24 of 25 crystals, i think i got him to go to sleep around midnight (yes, he’s five). i can’t wait till after work, so we can start looking for the extra goodies. and one of these days i’ve got to work on my mind-hand coordination skills so i can actually play the thing myself.
there are so many more buttons than back in my sega game gear days, when i had that little sonic the hedgehog problem. yes, i had blisters on my thumb and bandages on the blisters and i was still playin’.
but i did beat the hell out of that game. perfect game, where you never die, you know. get all the way through. did it twice, and was ‘cured’. of that one anyway.
and Mike – you still haven’t got the playstation?
Nope, haven’t got it yet, even though my overdraft is in fact going down. I’m pretty sure I’d use it, it’s got Colin McRae Rally (1&2, and both with that vibrating joypad which is so much more fun than my static keyboard) and Time Crisis (I actually, shockingly, found a copy of the original the other day) and it’s basically easy to use, but I’m so broke these days, gotta pay my overdraft off first.
I agree with the joystick thing though, when I first used the PSone (way back when it was a new creation) I had real problems graduating from my old Sega Game Gear style of keypressing to this whole new ‘two joysticks, a keypad and seven fire buttons’ style.
Don’t succumb to the powers of the controller. As long as he plays, you’ll be able to do things like shower, have clean clothes and other daily routine stuff. But if you touch that controller, your life will change forever.
Playstation is the new crack. I have three of them. I’m a crack-head.
You crack me up. It’s very cute. I’m reminded of my own mother. She graciously bought me and my sister a Super Nintendo. We were ecstatic. She bought us Tetris, and we thought it was pretty cool, but we preferred Super Mario Bros. And then one day, we noticed the huge blisters she had on her thumbs. She was waiting until we went to bed and then playing Tetris until way past her bedtime. Needless to say we had a long talk about priorities.
Cool moms rock.
Cool! A mother-son internet-gaming addiction!