A Week In Comments [Hyper Multi-tap]

Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

The NES Case That's A NES That's Great Comment by: Chanaluss Nominated by: LuisRM so do you have to blow into the back of both cartridges to get it to play? Going Off The Deep End: Has Gaming Grown Up? Comment by: dunetiger Nominated by: NeoAkira ...I have to say that I don't feel that games need to grow up, though I will say that some developers and publishers most definitely have grown up and some of simply not. As an entertainment medium that's enjoyed mostly by young adults 20-35 (going on 40), it's the audience that really hasn't grown up, and I'm not so sure that the audience wants to. Throughout your adult life, you have words like "maturity" and "professionalism" shoved violently down your throat until you either reject it entirely or you accept it and get on the highest horse you can find. At our most base level, humans are emotional, impulsive creatures - maturity is something that we've defined and enforced - but in the end, we all love to play, no matter how young

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