give me some credit Am I the only person who is incredibly disappointed with the way video games reward us for winning?

Things were going just fine, I was kicking some serious Super Mario 3 butt. I was totally stoked. The bad guy just fell through a big hole in the ground, and I finally rescued the princess and saved the Mushroom Kingdom from this really bad ugly dude. I figured this calls for some serious celebration. Imagine my disappointment when I got a few three second clips of Mario stepping on some turtles and a list of names that I can't even pronounce. I figure that I devoted so many hours of my commuting time to saving this princess, I should get something better. Like maybe some kind of a code for a free coffee at Starbucks or something. But nope, just a lame animation and a list of credits.

Why do we have to work so hard to see the credits in video games? Movie credits are pretty easy to come by. All you have to do is stay awake until the end of the movie. Well, okay, with movies like Batman & Robin out there, that may be easier said than done. But even bad movies tell you some things at the beginning of the movie. Director, producer, lead lighting technician, it's all right up there at the front of the film. It's only if you want to know the best boy grip that you need to watch until the end.

Yeah, I know, if I played video games that were created in the last couple of decades, I might get more satisfying endings. I'm sure you can all spout off 300 video games that have good endings. But don't you get it by now? I don't want answers, I just want to complain.  ¶ monger187 wrote this on 3/03/2005