24 Things That Prove Video Games Are All Grown Up
Video games are getting older, and so are you.
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24 Things That Prove Video Games Are All G...
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3. The model for Lara Croft will be over-the-hill before Obama’s second term is over.
Source: screened.com
5. Sonic the Hedgehog is old enough to drink.
To this.
9. You can now download arcade games on your phone for 99 cents (and it doesn’t cost extra to continue after you die).
10. The Museum of Modern Art is opening a video game exhibition.
It’s opening in March.
Source: moma.org
11. More people have bought “Mario” games than Beatles albums.
12. This guy hasn’t been James Bond for a decade.
Source: s304.beta.photobucket.com
13. There are now more “Final Fantasy” games than “Land Before Time” movies.
14. The year the first “Mario Kart” came out, Pontiac released the Trans Sport GT minivan.
Source: autos.aol.com
15. Sum 41’s “Fat Lip” was one of the newest songs on the original “Guitar Hero.”
Image by Scott Harrison / Getty Images
16. The first “Zelda” game came out when Ronald Reagan was president.
17. “Star Fox 64” came out when Bill Clinton was president.
18. The first “Call of Duty” was set in World War II and the new one is set in the future.
19. There have been 13 “Mario Party” games.
21. The Nintendo Game Cube holds 190 times more gigabytes of data than the N64.
Via: gamesradar.com
22. The average video game player is now 30 years old, according to the Entertainment Software Association.
Source: Getty / via: theesa.com
23. There is an entire generation of kids who have never played video games with a controller.
Source: youtube.com
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williamk13 2 months agoI remember getting the first NES. Had Duck Hunt, Mario Bros., and World Class Track Meet. Tecmo Super Bowl was a hit, Zelda, Mario Bros. 2 and 3. Don’t get me started on Super NES.
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noahmauldin 5 months agoThat Pokemon picture doesn’t even have all 649. That’s last generation’s 493
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#Beautiful 5 months agoThere’s also a card game, the Game Boy Advance version, and the Nintendo DS version. Which is still only 12… idk what the 13th one is about.
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Bob Builder, The 5 months ago#3 Seriously! Seriously? She’s going to turn 30 and that makes her “over the hill”
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