What happens when you stick a bunch of kids in a room and force them to play old school video games? I’ll tell you what happens - absolute hiliarity! EGM (a gaming magazine) conducted this experiment a few years ago for an article. It soon became the most popular article they’ve ever printed so they recently decided to make a sequel.

Here’s an excert of the kids playing Mike Tyson’s Punchout:

Anthony: If Mike Tyson was in this game, his special move would be to bite people’s ears. Then he’d be all gloating about it, but then the sound’s all low because you can’t hear him because your ears are gone. [Points at the next opponent, Von Kaiser] That’s Mike Tyson, and he’s trying to bite off your ear.

Garret: That’s not Mike Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar moustache, and he’s not white.

EGM: [Laughing] So those are the two things that make you think that’s not Mike Tyson?

Garret: Yeah, plus this guy’s wearing pants.

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***UPDATE***
This just keeps getting funnier and funnier!
While playing the arcade hit, 720:

GM: Now you have to imagine, you just paid a quarter to play what you played.

Garret: Oh, that’s lame.

EGM: And you’re going to pay another quarter to do this again.

Garret: Oh, that’s weak.

This site is hilarious. 

It features submissions by Wii owners who have done damage to themselves and their property (mostly TV’s) as the result of getting way too into their Wii games. 

Pat, I give you a month before you put a spiderweb in your TV from trying to put a spin on an attempt for a 7-10 split. 

http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ 

Shut the fuck up Donny!

http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=1666

If you haven’t heard already, all week long nerds have been lining up in droves to get their hands on the new Playstation 3. Retailing for $8 gillion dollars, the new Playstation will surely not disappoint those that love “fragging” and “pwning” people and jerk off over terms like “rendering” and “polygon”.

I’m not going to bash people for liking these games; if that’s your thing that’s fine. I like video games myself, but I’m not one of these hardcores that will camp out in front of Best Buy. I don’t particularly care for the first person shooters, like Quake and Unreal Tournament. I like sports games, and the classics like Mario Bros and Zelda. And I realize this doesn’t make me better than you. I myself am extremely excited to get my hands on the new Nintendo Wii this Sunday. Extremely excited. But I have a tough time believing that people will be starting riots and getting shot while waiting in line to get a Wii like they were last night to get a Playstation. That is the difference. Playstation generally attracts the hard core games. REALLY hard core games.

The frenzy that the PS3 is attracting is way out of hand. I realize that the short supply will significantly increase its value on eBay. But come on people! Settle the fuck down! It’s a fucking video game!
I found this “Guide to Camping at Best Buy” online. I particularly like this tip:

Tip #4: Don’t be yourself; make yourself seem intriguing! Let’s face it; you’re standing in front of an EB games at 2AM on a Saturday night, you suck at life. However, those in line don’t know that yet. They think you’re just like them; dedicated fans that just by freak accident happened to have the weekend free for the 245th week in a row.

And if want to see what a crowd of nerds looks like when they get pissed off because they can’t get their video games, check out this clip:

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