Been spending most my life, living in a gamer's paradise

I'm working on a video project right now. My church's youth group (that I'm a staff member of) is having a special event this Wednesday night. the theme is "old school video game characters". i'm really excited about this one and have put alot of thought into it. We're hosting a video game tournaments where 5 different groups play 5 different games. We're going very old school with an Intellivision, an Atari, a NES, and SNES and an old arcade game played on a Psone.

My video is going to be the intro for the tournament. So I started browsing youtube for any video game scenes to use in a fast paced compilation video (with the Halo 3 teaser trailer music as the background).

As I watched the videos, it blew my mind to see how far we had come as far as video games go. These systems were brand new and "so awesome" in my younger years and now I look back at them with a longing, but not enough of a longing to play it instead of Cod4. not that that's a bad thing. Some things belong in the past and should be only be looked back upon with fondness. although I will admit to buying a few games on the the Wii's VC and enjoyed them way too much (star fox 64 comes to mind)


I just find it so weird that I've seen so much advancement in technology take place. It reminds me of the scene in South park where Cartman freezes himself to go into the future to get the Wii, the problem is he goes SO FAR into the future that the TV's in the future don't support the input for the Wii. I thought it was hilarious (and a bit...ironic?)

That's almost a problem with these intellivisions and Atari's. when I was doing testing for this tournament to determine which games we'd use. We tried to hook up an intellivision to a Vizio 42" HDTV, and it was no go. We found a small 9 in tv and hooked it up to that just to test it. We also had to do the typical "blow into the cartridge to get it to play"

Wow...how technologies change.