How to prove you are completely out of touch

Imagine you own an iPod/touch.  You hear about some really 'cool' game called tap tap revenge.  You zip over to the Apple App store and get it.  You fire it up and start pounding on the screen. Nothing. Stuff moves around, whatever, but, like what's the point of this. 

So you show it to an 11 year old sitting next to you who has an iPhone in his hand.

"So, you ever play this game?"

"Oh yeah, I have it, totally cool, amazing!"

"Really?  I don't get it. Look, I have it on my iPod/touch and, well, what do you do? I don't get this..."

"Uh, mister, you have to put you ear phones in. It's like Guitar Hero, it umm, is way better with sound. Like, see, check this out."

<sigh>

Fortunately for me, this kid is getting on a plane to New Zealand here at LAX.  He's on the boarding jet way still laughing, jumping up and down, pointing at me, while his parents give me the sympathetic "we didn't get it either" look. 

If the little Kiwi's got a blog, I'm covered. I gave him Matt Murphy's business card just in case.

RedEye time.

Comments

[Parveen Kaler]

According to the ESA, the video game industry took in revenues of $9.5 billion in 2007. As a VC, I'm gonna guess you can get that. :-)

[Seb G]

Goes to show that reading the manual is for everyone.

[Benjamin Ellis]

OK, I am actually crying laughing. Us poor folks who are not of the digital generation - for ever destined to be a curiosity to the young... Especially with our unique skills, like booking things into the diary and turing up on time ;)