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From BIUL #1<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ironically, I’ve been having a patchy relationship with video games for the past year or so. I have zero desire to play against grade schoolers, or people I don’t know, and that seems to be the way the wind has blown. I use my computer for business, and the only game I trust not to fuck it up is\u00a0Age of Empires,<\/em> from 1997. I’m a middle-aged man. My goals and those of your average gamer are not the same.<\/p>\n

I’ve held on to an Xbox 360 since 2008, one of a pool of consoles I’ve traded or brought back from the Red Ring of Death. I actually learned how to fix 360s from a friend, and for a while, it was a very handy skill. It justified the hobby.<\/p>\n

But the latest incarnation of consoles require an internet connection, so they can link up with Netflix, and Facebook, and all that other shit. Let me get this straight- I’m dropping sixty bucks on a video game, on top of what I pay a month for internet, plus a subscription cost for the console’s network? That’s some serious information superhighway robbery.<\/p>\n

I had Xbox Live for a brief time, during which I purchased\u00a0Borderlands<\/em> and another full game download. After my subscription ended, these games\u00a0ceased to function<\/em>, even though\u00a0I paid for them<\/em>. Needless to say, this left a bad taste in my mouth. Easy come, easy go, I suppose. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n

Truthfully, ethical standards in video games have always been tenebrous. In the heyday of the Atari 2600, you had about a one-in-ten shot you were paying ($50+) for a good game. Nintendo used an “Official Seal of Quality”, a common sight on the covers of\u00a0the worst games ever made.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"What

What does it say about a video game when it’s better as a book?<\/p><\/div>\n

I actually owned a Sega CD and\u00a0Night Trap<\/em>. I bought the game because there were rumors it would be banned. It was cringe-inducing and as sexual as a girdle catalog. Dana Plato gave the performance of her life, and a girl in a nightgown sang the theme song into a broom handle. It wasn’t a far cry from Jim Wynorski movies on USA Up All Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here’s proof I didn’t imagine it.<\/p>\n