The old video games

There are some video games that are immortal. You can play them irrespective of the age but probably the first time you played them was in a video game parlor with a friend when your height was half of what it is now.

I don’t remember the first video game i ever played. Was it a car race or some fight game? Got no memories of it. But i have got memories of Contra, Mario and Mortal Kombat4. The animations were stupid, the tasks simple and the fun unlimited. All i now remember is after playing for the first time i was hooked to them and my unit test marks suffered a lot. Yes, weekly unit tests….they were perfect preparation for office life where the next deadline starts approaching before you have achieved the one in hand.

Compared to modern realistic games our old video games have little to offer. I sometimes wonder how i will explain my favorite video games to my kids. Will i say to them in Pacman we raced a yellow circle that ate dots while being chased by clowns? In Tetris various blocks used to fall from sky which we had to arrange in a row and once arranged in a row, the row would disappear. Mario was about a man who was on a mission to save a princess. In that game we used to eat mushrooms, collect coins and jump on turtles.

Anyone remembers the Google Pacman doodle. When a colleague told me about it, i said i will play it just once. Just for old times sake. Then played it again, after all it just gonna take two more minutes, then again and again. I don’t remember how many times i played pacman on that day but few days later i read a news article that said pacman google doodle costed more than 100 million bucks to companies in wasted productivity. Most expensive google doodle ever. However, i never heard a single word against pacman doodle because i am sure most of the big boys in their big offices were playing pacman on that day.

Here is the link to that doodle. It is now a permanent webpage. Bookmark it. http://www.google.com/pacman/ ENJOY.