Mar 17th, 2006, 01:29 AM
Todays Youth Dont know how to play videogames.
Basically every wednesday at my school we go to one of the classrooms at lunch to play Video Games. It was my turn last yesterday, and wanting a break from that Piece of Overated shit Halo 2, I decided to bring my copy of Street Fighter 2 in hopes of a few good games and to hopefully dethrone Halo 2 as the game to play on wednesdays.
So with me being 17, and only owning the oldschool systems in my childhood, I figured that even if the rest of the regulars were only 2 years younger than me, they should be able to know how to play.
Immediatly I knew that they were dumbasses because of the fact that the majority didnt know what a Cartridge was except that it was something that you use in your GBA. So I figured that even the most simple of these morons knew how to at least throw a fireball.
The first match is up and its me against the self proclaimed master of Videogames. That little fucker is talking shit about how he beat me at Virtua Fighter a year ago (i have since gotten a lot better) so he feels that he i natually good at everything. So I start the game, we select our fighters (me playing as RYU and he, in all of his grand ignorance of this game, selects Ken).
The match is on and after 2 Fireballs (Hadokens), 3 Dragon Punches and One hurricane kick I win the round with a perfect in less than 20 seconds. Immediatly he starts bitchin and moaning about how I cheat and how "that flying uppercut thingy is illegal from now on because it is a cheat and is stupid and sucks"(that quote was immediatly followed by crying, kicking a wall and breaking his big toe and Running out of the room and screaming that I am a loser while he runs into the door and breaking his nose). Thinking that I may be too good at this, I just let them go at it. Immediatly I sense something wrong as I see Sagat Standing in place and kicking while Guile just jumps back and forth.
Now these guys arent the best at games, but I thought that it was common knowlege how to throw a fireball. I guess not, So I had to spend the whole lunch period giving tips like when you play as blanka, press the light punch button a lot really fast, or dont use Zangief because you cannot possibly do his special.
In the end, I realized that the reason why they didnt know what street fighter was is that the most popular games are ones that require little or no skill, just purely button mashers. The guys that come into the room just button mash, so any game that requires more than pushing a buttton over and over again is lost on them. Also, given their age and the fact that they came from wealthy families, they never played street fighter because of its age. While I come from a poor family in a poor neighbourhood grew up playing the nintendo while the dreamcast was released, I never got to play street Fighter unti 1998, and that was the most advanced game I had ever played at that time.
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