Just watched WALL-E. It is an awesome show. It deserves a much better rating then the one Ong Sor Fern gave. You should stay and watch the whole ending credits - it is like a concise history of drawing and painting done by humans. Seeing the pixel art on screen made me realize video games were never a big part of my life. Due to a combination of my parents’ frugality, the cost of owning a video game console and their worries that video games would have affected my studies, I never owned a first hand video game console although I did manage to score a Sega Mega Drive (with only 1 game) and PlayStation years after they became passe.
Sad.
However I did manage to play video games because I had friends and neighbors who owned consoles. I vaguely remember playing on the Atari at the holiday resort Awana up at Genting Highlands when we went to Malaysia for a church camp.
Don’t think I ever managed to complete a single video game. Even sadder.
I think I’ll wait until I move to my own place before getting a video game console to compensate for lost time.
brian | 02-Sep-08 at 11:52 am | Permalink
don’t worry, the only game i ever completed was Mario on the gameboy! and boy.. did i complete it.
Anyway, any show that Ong Sor Fern deems as not worthy of being watched, my friend and I watch it with absolute glee!
iantimothy | 02-Sep-08 at 1:15 pm | Permalink
about the Ong Sor Fern thingy… you show such wisdom unbecoming of a rocker.