{"id":887,"date":"2008-04-17T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T07:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-04-17T01:19:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T07:19:13","slug":"momgamer-when-everything-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/momgamer-when-everything-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Momgamer: When Everything Old is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""Shout<\/a>I’ve always had this list in my head of things that I wasn’t going to mention to the kids. A partial list would include Dr. Who, The Watchmen, Pink Floyd, and several specific Heinlein novels. Some of my favorite things are stuff I got to discover for myself when I left home. I didn’t want to take that from them by leaving them nothing left to find.
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\nIn some cases it was hard to wait, but not all of them. I’m not explaining Rorschach and his more, uh, creative methods of finding information or Heinlein’s novel “Friday” to an uninitiated adult much less a kid. But most of them could have surfaced around their 14th birthday or so without even causing a ripple.<\/p>\n

While I was content to wait, the world apparently wasn’t. Several of those things on my original list sort of popped onto the world stage. Hollywood started turning them into movies. After they mangled the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and we all enjoyed V’s voiciferous virtuosity I thought I was safe. But it looks like Watchmen<\/a> hits the silver screen next year. “Dr. Who” is on TV again with a whole new series. <\/p>\n

Music acts I thought long dead started showing up on the airwaves again. And then the ultimate flashback machines showed up. Guitar Hero. Then Guitar Hero II. Then Guitar Hero III. Then Rock Band. All of them chock full of memories for me. But for kids today they’re just good music, and that little taste is all they need to get them started. We were driving somewhere in my son’s car, and he popped in a mix CD one of his buddies made for him. After three or four songs I just had to start laughing. It was all sounding awfully familiar, and then Axel Rose started wailing about Paradise City and I just couldn’t help it. <\/p>\n

It’s getting a bit ridiculous. They used to call my CD rack The Crypt. Now I can’t keep anything in it. I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Steve Perry gypsy shag or getting nailed between the eyes by memories. At this rate they’ll start wearing legwarmers and Unit belts any day now.<\/p>\n

It’s happening in the game store as well. The downloadable content on the Wii and XboxLive is bringing even more of the classics home. Now that we’ve got Baroque the latest requests have been for IceClimbers and Super Marble Madness.<\/p>\n

I guess everything old is going to be new again just a bit sooner than I’d thought. I feel like I’ve moved back in with my college roommates. Now all we need is a King’s Quest or Monkey Island remake to complete the illusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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