More Video Games Dads Still Rule At (And Kids Don’t)
Believe it or not, there’s an ET landfill-sized pool of games out there that dads still rule at, that young gamers will never understand.
While dads may feel left behind as Nintendo Switches to “pay-for-play” online and Playstation tries VR, the grown have skills that the current generation, sadly, may never develop. So while the Greatest Generation may have fought in World War II, the Greatest Gamers can still put up a fight in these games against any of today’s kids.
This is Part 2 in our Video Game series. Click here to see Part 1.
NBA Jam
There’s a surprising amount of math stealthily snuck into this video game about sports. Your average child, from both then and now, will stare intently at the bright colors and cartoonish-style dunking that NBA Jam has to offer.
However, if you’re too young to be wowed by the fact this game had an actual talking commentator, then you probably have no chance of understanding the mathematical precision that separates winners from losers.
You see, NBA Jam is all about probability and statistics. For example, when you’re on a hot streak (indicated by the ball actually catching fire when you touch it) you do have a very real advantage. The game took the concept of “being in the zone” and actually turned it into a law of VG physics. Once you make a few shots in a row and you’re “on fire” your shots then have a higher percentage of going in.
Also, kids growing up watching the high-priced babies of today’s NBA may not know about aggressive basketball, which NBA Jam is all about. Likewise, they probably don’t know the old phrase, “offense gets the glory, but defense wins the game.”
Contested shots in NBA Jam lower a shot’s chances of not being a brick. Player stats, court position, momentum, these are all factors of the game that calculate every shot’s probability. So to master this game, your 2K skills are of no use. The advantage goes to the last generation to memorize the multiplication table.
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