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FATHER TIME WILL FIND YOU, EVEN IN VIDEO GAMES By RANDY CAPPS
Everyone of a certain age deals with the effects of aging. I often wander into the kitchen for one thing and leave with something entirely different — only then to return for the original item. This phenomenon is pretty common, but in what really shouldn’t be a surprise to regular readers of this column, I have a more unique issue. I’ve been playing video
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games since the 7-year-old version of me was blasting aliens in Space Invaders on the Atari 2600. I’m not sure what this says about my social skills as a young person, but
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I’ve always been very good at playing games. I was the neighborhood champion of Tecmo Bowl and Street Fighter, I held my own in the dorm room battles in Super Mario Kart and I’ve had many European lads cuss me up and down in games of FIFA (soccer). But, as I crept into middle age this year, I’ve noticed something. I’m not the video game man I used to be. I saw it in this year’s FIFA game. I was a touch slower
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than I used to be, and as a result, little kids from Denmark kicked my butt. It was so jarring that I’ve stopped playing it for a while, opting instead for more slower-paced games. But I’ve decided that I’m not going to give up. I’m going to play better, change my strategies and find a way to keep up with people 30 years younger than me. That is, of course, unless I forget where I put the game...
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