1up has a hilarious article with kids trying out classic games (or perhaps “classic” games).
About Adventure for the 2600:
EGM: Do you identify with this dot character?
Garret: No. The dot is small. I am not.
Bobby: Yeah. My best friend, he looks just like this dot: small, handsome and adventurous.
EGM: How long would you put up with this game?
Garret: I could put up with this game for five more minutes.
Bobby: I could put up with this game for hours, but I’m so easily amused. How about we just pretend this is the new Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater game.
I would love to see them trying out Elite – I have a heretic belief that though the game pioneered open-ended gameplay and people talk about Elite as something absolutely wonderful, it would be completely unplayable today.
If you have a Mac with OSX lying around I highly recomend Oolite – for a bit of nostalgia with updated graphics.
Do you enjoy playing it?
I most definitely do, Jesper. But then again, I did fiddle with the original for a few hours back in 1989, so I don’t really count do I? But I’m actually getting a similar feeling of “do what you want” as I got when I was playing Morrowind. I think that being able to “fill in the blanks” in the narrative makes these games interesting for the imagination.