It didn't take more than a glance to realize they don't build 'em like they used to. For instance Lara Croft, the little woman on the front of the Tomb Raider box was nothing like the damsel in distress on my Intellivison version of Donkey Kong. When they said three-dimensional, they really meant it. Today's video games look more like Saturday morning cartoons, with the best ones resembling the movies from which they are often based. For our reviewing purposes, it seemed logical to adopt a similar process to the one we use for selecting our movies.
Simulation games are available for either system, with sport games being the main genre.
But without question the largest variety of games are those classified as entertainment, which dominate the options for stand-alone platforms. While the boxy graphics on my Intellivision only held my interest for a couple of years before it was stowed in a closet, a whole new generation of children have grown up with these high resolution surround sound entertainment games as their playmates. Unfortunately some titles go far beyond cute dragons and cartoon characters, allowing humans to live their most ugly fantasies. 3 Remember that was six years ago, and the Playstation was just entering the marketplace. Jack Thompson represents families who are suing Id Software Inc. and other companies for being accessories to mass school shootings.