Man, games are great and all, but--... I wonder what they do up there all day... | |
You know, the question was pretty lame, but the answer was awesome. | |
Video games in space? Awesome, now to find a way to mix that with peanut butter and dinosaurs and we might just have the best thing ever, thinking hats on people! | |
Even the video game world is not immune to stories about what the Obama kids are doing it seems. Well at least they can play video games in space! Immagine DDR or Wii fit in space! | |
Bet its Starcraft..har har har. | |
These aren't the Obama kids. These were regular DC Schoolchildren. | |
Well still, kids like their video games!! | |
I would ask them serious and very pressing questions like how are they preparing humanity for the coming zombie apocalypse. | |
The absolutely most common question asked of astronauts, for years, was "how do you go to the bathroom in space?" Folks aren't necessarily interested only in the grand sweep of things; sometimes the banal attracts their attention too.
Remember last year when the news reported that a computer virus had made it aboard the ISS? If I recall correctly, the virus's most common method of transmission was through an adulterated version of Maple Story... so I suspect we know at least one game title aboard the station. -- Steve | |
Yeah...
Did you not see Dave Hiroshima? The astronauts simply hack into the game making aliens network, and play for free, with speeds we can only dream of. | |
Does this mean the next person I kill on a multiplayer match could be an alien, does it mean that I may have indeed played with a space chick, we may never know..... | |
Gamers in space? I predict a Uwe Boll movie. | |
My bet is minesweeper or pong. | |
Must be hard to play the Wii in space. | |
Enh, it's a lame question, but really, the opportunity they've been given is kind of lame. It's not the sixties anymore. | |
On a related note I saw today that Christer Fuglesang (the first swedish astronaut) is going to play himself in some sci-fi movie :/ The world is a strange place... | |
Good to see the kids of today have their priorities straight. | |
Actually I've heard a while ago that at some point in time astronauts had a small LAN game of Quake in space. Don't ask me which one, most likely 2 or 3. | |
"Hey guys! If I spin the remote, the pointer stays dead center! WTF?" I must say that if I was in space, I'd probably spend my free-time staring out a window. But gaming from the ISS would be a different experience... | |
I suppose that if they could play a game for 6 months whilst orbitting the planet, they could probably sit through all of MGS4s cutscenes... Sorry, I just came from the Kojima keynote thread. | |
My bet is this video game the astronaut played was very kid-friendly. Just the lack of description and seeming dismissal of the question makes me think that way. Something along the lines of Super Drugged Bloody Action Babes 2 comes to mind. | |
i dunno, they are right next to a few satellite internet relay stations, right? | |
I think I must get paired with them a bit... | |
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Obama and Kids Pester Astronauts About Games
If you were a gradeschooler who had the chance to meet the President and speak to some astronauts in space, would you ask them ... about videogames?
Imagine you're a kid again. You go to school in Washington, D.C. and you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the President of the United States and other members of Congress. Not only that, but you get to join them in a videoconference with astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. You get to ask them anything you want - anything. So what do you ask them?
If you're one particular student, apparently you ask them: "Can you play videogames in space?" I guess we know where kids' priorities are these days.
Obama relayed the message to the crew of the Discovery and received an interesting response: You can, in fact, play videogames in space. One of the Discovery astronauts answered:
I wonder what game said astronaut was playing. Maybe something portable? Using the DS in zero-gravity might be hard, when you think about it.
Man, the lag when they host must be awful.
(GamePolitics)
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