Welcome to The Crotchety Old Gamer.  If you don’t like it, fuck off.  No, really.  This is a place where I rant and rave about video games.  Games I like, games I fucking hate, companies I hate, companies I love; whatever comes to mind while I am typing.  I will also list my reasons for hating the things I do.  I might reference other reviewers or even link them.  This is my goddamn bloggy thing-a-majiggy.  It’s what all the kids are doing nowadays, right? Youtube?  What’s Youtube? Up your tube, more like…

So, maybe a little less of that and a little more of a relative crotchety old man.  I mean, I think we can all agree that the gaming community is getting younger, and most gamers get to an age where they have “grown out” of video games.  And for a lot of people that is fine.  Cool.  GTFO.  Quitters.  I have been gaming since I first touched that Commodore 64.  It was a glorious machine and its brand of fun rivaled the hours I spent power-mashing Mario through Super Mario Brothers.  Oh, what’s that? You’ve been playing since before I was born? Shut the fuck up.  Asshole.  I don’t care.  Then go write your own blog.  I am 27 and I still enjoy PC gaming as if I was still struggling to get the pellets in Pacman.  So, by comparison, I would say I am an “old man” gamer, and boy am I crotchety.  Go look that word up.  I’ll wait.  Anyways, after having lived through a series of peaks and troughs of gaming history, I have reached a place where nearly every bit of gaming news I run into makes me want to club a baby seal.  I know a song about that.  I learned it in the Army.  But despite how angry gaming makes me, I keep coming back.  Is it because I am an addict?  Maybe.  Is it because it gives me something that I just cannot get elsewhere?  Partly.  But this speech from PAX East 2010, which made me cry, says more about gamers and our community than I think the world is ready to hear.  This blog boils down to one statement.

video games are art

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