Granny Gamer
(midwest.social)
Stamets
TumblrI thought they were talking about Dungeon Master 🤷♂️
Doom was my first thought but Wolf3D makes sense too.
I’m terrified that in a not so long future my inevitable grandchild will post some crap like that disrespecting StarCraft 2 and my memory in a crap combo.
use gun
As I recall, the correct answer was, "use a Big Fucking Gun (9000)"
Was this Doom or Duke Nukem 3D
Aww crap. I misremembered.
It was Doom. I can't remember which weapon I used to kill cyber-Hitler. I think I just conflated the thrill of shooting Hitler with the thrill of shooting the BFG9000.
I'm OK with that mistake.
Doom, the BFG is king
Hmpaha!
Schutzstaffel!
The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
Very soon there won't be a generation that can remember video games not existing.
My parents were born in the late 60s and played the very first video games like pong and space invaders in the 70s. Gaming back then was more of a novelty toy and not so widespread as it is today.
Very true. My son was playing some Atari 2600 games on our Steam Deck and finally stopped to ask me, "Did people actually have fun with these games?"
Eh, not really! They were indeed a novelty, and usually got pretty boring fairly quickly...
I mean, I did! Having literally no other options makes a big difference!
Fair. I was one of the nerds who would still rather read a book or watch Star Trek reruns.
The first video games were created in the 50s, and the precursors to them (like slot machines) are decades older. We are probably pretty close to that already.
They might have existed, but few people actually played them or even knew about them then. Slot machines don't count, no video!
In the near future retirement homes may still have knitting activities, but they'll also have LAN parties with Warcraft 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Age of Empires, Quake tournaments. All of this along with classic 80s arcade games. We'll be eating in the dining hall listening to the demo sounds of Dig Dug or Ms Pacman playing softly in the background.
If my nursing home doesn't have video games and heavy metal, good luck trying to get my ass in the Handivan.
Check yourself into Mattersville
Then 15-20 years later, those same glorious halls will echo with the sound of the Halo.
The reverberated utterances of DOUBLEKILL cascading into a TRIPLEKILL, or god bless it an OVERKILL. Our geriatric eyes darting across the screen during a round of swat trying to get that beautiful bullet sway of a perfectly swiped Battle Rifle shot.
Mountain Dew coursing through our ancient and dilapidated bodies. Obliterating the covenant, split screen mayhem, the MLG generation.
Power to the fucking players baby.
MEGA-KILL!
GOD-LIKE!
Let's sure hope the classics are preserved!
My grandma played a lot of Zork through the '80s, and taught me to play it in the '90s.
I imagine from her point of view arcade games got gradually more computerized.
I'm 51 and remember playing Asteroids in the arcade. The state of video games today literally blows my mind, I have a hard time processing what's going on!
I'm close to 50 and have never stopped playing them since Pac-Man in 1983. The big budget ones have gotten too bloated for their own good, though!
If I recall, there were also rocket launchers.
You're probably thinking of Quake, which definitely had a rocket launcher.
Wolf 3D, as I recall, had four weapons. Knife, pistol, SMG, and chain gun.
Doom is an even closer equivalent with a rocket launcher.
I only recall a minigun, but no rocket launcher.
Ah yes
I guess same, but I would prefer to be seen as the grandpa that played Quake while listening to NIN. Academy award winning NIN.
