Take that, Alex

It seems that my age old argument--that the moral decisions you make in video games reflects, at some primal level, your actual moral character--has got legs.

I always pick the good guys, by the way.

So quintessential it hurts

I've started to come around to the conclusion that at least some internet content is somehow automatically generated by the very nature of the internet itself. For instance, I kind of arbitrarily ran into this awesomely banal comment on some stupid article about video games:

i think that unreal was the greatest game eva made!

Ah. That's the stuff. I mean, it's gotta be self-generated, right?

Greatest video game ever?

I was just perusing kottke.org for the first time, and was reading a chronology of his life in the About section. This grabbed me:

1994: Sega NHL '94 is simply the greatest video game ever. My college roommate had a TV, and I had a Sega Genesis & NHL '94. At any given time between 9am and 10pm, 7 days a week, there were usually 2 to 6 people in our room playing that game. I'd leave for class with a bunch of folks watching or playing, coming back three hours later to find a completely different group worshipping at the shrine of NHL '94.

I think you can make a solid case for NHL 94 as best game ever--I was much younger when I played it, but I had the similar experience of playing this game for hours, day in and day out, every day (esp. in the summer). I'd go down to my friend Raja's house and I'd play as the Red Wings (Yzerman, Federov, Chelios, and fucking Coffee? Goodnight) and he'd play as the Kings (Wayne was a sentimental favorite) or Blackhawks (Roenick was a monster, as was Belfour). He beat me most of the time, but I beat him enough to where it was competitive and fun to play. Man.

To be fair, I haven't played many of the later generation sports games...for instance, I've never played any of the Madden games. So maybe there's someone out there who knows better.