Oh How Video Games Have Changed

It doesn’t seem that long ago when playing video games only meant one thing. The big heavy, bulky gray box that had one simple button. Power. Ok there were two buttons, power and reset. It also came with only two controllers and the controllers only had up down, left right, start, select, ‘a’ and ‘b’.  This was called Nintendo, how it all started.

When you hear that people are playing video games now a days, options are endless. PSP, PSP 2, PSP 3 (Is there a third these days?) XBOX 360, Wii, Sega (that’s a little bit more of a ghetto game these days as well) and I’m probably missing a ton others. You never only have just 2 controllers and game options are endless. What you see below is what I call a blast from the past and probably would never be seen played again unless it’s as a joke.

T-shirt courtesy of NerdyShirts

When playing old school Nintendo, you were either playing Donkey Kong, or Mario Brothers. Looking back at Donkey Kong now and having familiar memories from this shirt, has made me realize how tedious Donkey Kong actually must have been. Level after level moving up a ladder and all the way to the right. Then up another ladder and all the way to the left. You continue this pattern on and on while jumping barrels in between. How do you beat the game? I have no idea. Is it as satisfactory as killing monsters? Probably not. But was it fun? You bet it was.