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Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I don’t get the whole Pokemon
GO craze. I’m a video game nerd from way back when you
had to go to an arcade to get your fix. I spent untold hours and
quarters on Pac-Man, Tron, Galaga and my all-time favorite —
Centipede.
In my hometown, I had the high score at two different arcades for
the entire summer of 1982. When Atari released its first home-console
(ah, that classic black plastic and fake wood veneer), I continued my
obsession with Centipede and other games that came on boxy little
cartridges.
In the ‘90s, I upgraded to a PlayStation and was heavily into
Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Alien, Grand Theft Auto and Silent Hill.
As the millennium turned, I became bored with the games. I briefly
dallied with MineCraft a few years ago when it was all the rage, but
after I quickly lost interest in that, I promised myself I wouldn’t get
sucked into any more pop culture gaming phenomenon. That’s why
Pokemon GO has zero interest for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I have played Pokemon GO — for about 20 minutes. My BFF
Karen downloaded it to her iPhone and one Saturday when we were
walking to dinner in Kirkwood, she showed me how to play
it. I was bored in 10 minutes. Sure, all the augmented
reality stuff is cool, but I just couldn’t imagine myself
blindly wandering down Intown’s streets waiting for
Pokemon to pop out of the bushes.
There’s a popular Facebook group that
organizes meet-ups and gatherings here in
Atlanta (facebook.com/PokemonGoATL) where
players roam parks and neighborhoods looking
for Pokemon. The best aspect of the game, in my
opinion, is that it gets you out of the house and forces
you to walk. I just wished the game were more interesting.
I was filling up my car at Buddy’s in Poncey-Highland a
couple of weeks ago and this kid stopped right in front of my car, his head bowed over his
phone, his finger making the familiar swiping motion to fire the Poke Ball to capture a creature.
I thought he would move after I got in my car and started it up. Rather than beep my horn,
I opened my door and gently said, “Hi, are you playing Pokemon?” The kid looked up at me
with a glazed, goofy grin and said, “Yeah!” I smiled and nodded, and then it dawned on him he
was blocking my car. He slowly walked away down North Avenue, finger frantically swiping his
smartphone screen.
I went over to Charis Books in Little Five Points and bought some books to take home, curl
up on the couch and get lost in. That’s my idea of adventure these days. [HI
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