Star-Telegram columnist realizes games have changed since he last played

Ft. Worth Star Telegram sports columnist David Thomas had an interesting piece Wednesday (January 21, 2009) about playing video games with his son. Thomas admits he hasn’t picked up a game in years and his son, well, he had a son’s natural desire to whoop on his old man at something.

Thomas thought they would play a golf game but found out he wasn’t going to get through the character creation in less a half hour (games didn’t have character creation the last time Thomas played, obviously). When you think about it, we have a lot of gaming conventions that would be alien to even the most hardcore gamer from 25-30 years ago…