Damn kids.

Kids these days.

No this isn't the story of the two stupid kids who decided they were gonna be funny and stand in front of my car when I was trying to pull out of a parking lot, then one comes to my door and then I open the door and probably break his hand, then pull off. Although that is a good story.

After reading way too many comments on the Shadow the Hedgehog review trying to defend the game, I just have to make a statement on what I feel is a growing problem in today's gaming culture.

Kids are far too accepting of crap.

For these purposes, a "kid" is defined as "someone younger than 19".

The theory is that if a company makes nothing but bad games and doesn't improve, they die and go to hell. We ran Acclaim out of the game making business (Now some other company goes by the name Acclaim). Acclaim (And child company LJN), maker of such shitty licensed games as The Karate Kid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Back To The Future, Back To The Future II & III, Airwolf, Knight Rider, WWF Wrestlemania, The Incredible Crash Dummies, Alien 3, Alias, Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure, Jaws, X-Men, Bart Meets Radioactive Man, Bart vs. The World, Krusty's Fun House, Rambo, Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, Bart vs. The Space Mutants, Total Recall...

I could go on.

The point is we had enough sense to hate those games. Kids today do not have the sense to hate games. People seem to like Shadow the Hedgehog. My 10 year old cousin liked it. Some 16 year old who just commented on the video liked it. People liked it enough to make it a Greatest Hit/Player's Choice.

If you want game companies like Sega to stop cranking out shitty games or stop cranking out games altogether, stop buying them.

Or at least buy them used so EB gets the profit.