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[andrewducker]

EGM got a bunch of kids together to review really, really old games here.

Niko: Hey - Pong. My parents played this game.

Brian: It takes this whole console just to do Pong?

Kirk: What is this? [Picks up and twists the paddle controller] Am I controlling the volume?

John: I'm just going to do this [twists the paddle controller as rapidly as possible].

Tim: John, don't do that. You'll die.

Andrew: This is a lot like that game. Um, whatchamacallit—air hockey.

Sheldon: Except worse.

Andrew: Blip. Blip. Blip. Blip.

Becky: I don't even see the point of having sound on this.

Andrew: Wow. The score is tied. It's so exhilarating.

Brian: I saw a documentary on this. The game was so popular in arcades that it got jammed up with quarters.

John: In this thing? [Points to the Pong game console]

Tim: I would never pay to play something like this.

Comments

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

On reading the article I have this strong feeling that it's all one journo deciding what kids might say that sounds cool to adults and writing that.
The language just feels wrong for kids. It sounds like what somebody thinks kids sound like.