Jon22: The Website of Jonathan Dobres

It’s hard to believe that at the age of twenty-two it’s so easy to sound like a crotchety old man. 1up.com’s latest installment of Child’s Play (not to be confused with Penny Arcade’s wonderful annual toy drive) pretty much proves that kids today just don’t know how good they have it.

Granted, some of the games these Playstation Generation kiddies were forced to play were pretty horrible to begin with. A game for the Atari 2600 called Adventure? Come on, that’s like trying to introduce someone to alcohol with a product named Liquid. Still, some of the comments are stunning. Why, they ask, would anyone intentionally name a boxing game Mike Tyson’s Punch Out? Coming from 2004, they don’t realize that Iron Mike was pretty respectable back in 1987. The eleven year old, pug faced, obnoxious Parker says, “Nothing is bad publicity.” He’ll go far in PR.

There is but one game that the kids actually enjoyed, one game that they respected. Amazingly, some seemed to prefer the old school version to its modern counterpart. Released in 1987, it is the one, the only, the timeless, The Legend of Zelda. You bet your butts, kiddies. Respect.