Awesome. I await more.

Little Monsters was the shit

This guy looks like the guy who was in "The Wonder Years".

that is the guy from the wonder years, also the best video game related movie ever 'The Wizard'.

@naia: Wow, you don't say?

When I first saw the pic I thought it was a memoir of Fred Savage's. Instead, I feel sorry for this guy's brother and sister!

@naia: Or maybe the pictures used for the article are actually of Fred Savage and not Todd Levin.

...Has no one actually read the passage? Am I the only one to have found that really effed up???

@ceilingFANBOY: timmaythesped (PSN):
No way, that would make too much sense. I'd like to recount my own story through consoles but even at a young age its too long to bother with. Besides it leaves me something to do in my old age.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! AHAHA AHA HA.. haha.. ha... PFFTAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!

The Wizard was rad!

Dang, Wonder Years grows up!

Todd Levin the bass player? So he likes games?
eh? and?

well, funny story nonetherless.

Consarn it. I, too, judged the article by the picture and realized it wasn't Fred Savage until too late.

I can't even tell anymore which people commenting here are just joking and which ones actually thought that this guy is Fred Savage's long lost twin who even took the same publicity shots.

Wikipedia failed to tell me who Todd Levin is, so I assume he is unimportant. I did learn, however, that Tony Levin (born June 6, 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an influential American bass player.

Some people are defined by their jobs. Some people by their parents or spouses.

Me, I'm defined by my game systems.

I love this article. :D

I didn't remember the actual name of the "kid from the wonder years" and assumed it was an article about him... You're a sneaky one Kotaku!

Nice find there Kotaku! Now waiting for more. :3

Whatever happened to Fred Savage anyway? And this Todd Levin guy, never heard of him, but he can keep his surrogate boner to himself. I don't watch the news, I read it.

@Trowble: he was on boy meets world as the perverted professor trying to get in topanga's pants, that slut.

@djpaec: That was a good episode.

Too bad you can't do that with today's controllers.

The little nubs on those analog controls? For get about it!

Not to mention, those oversized xbox controllers always made my hands look small...

@djpaec: Oh so Fred went from child star turned adult pedophile "actor". Not uncommon in the world today. Then again, he wasn't The Wizard, his brother was...

@djpaec: Wasn't that his brother who played corey in boy meets world?

mmm, two Savages after one girl.. werid :)

@crosswayboy:

Could have been nicer about it... not everyone is native to this country and attuned with such quality [sarcasm] programming we have.

Poor guy actually returned a 5200 just because something led him to believe it could only be used on color TVs? Wow. (I had a 5200 on a B&W TV for the better part of the 80s) Of course it may have been for the best, my parents were in fairly dire financial straits during the time and replacing the 5200 controllers every few weeks when they'd break probably nearly lost them the house.

I wonder if, once the 90's rolled around, he tried to use The Powerglove on Beth Rubenstein. After all..it's SO BAD.

@huginn: true story. And Ben Savage actually makes a couple appearances in The Wonder Years, according to IMDB.

@djpaec: Yeah I just spent 15 minutes getting lost in the Wiki's (funny how they do that do you)

Funnier how my childhood, and my older step-brother's childhood were both shaped by one family of brothers.

I remember this guy, watching old shows with my family does pay off lol, from the wonder years.

"TMN Contributing Writer Todd Levin is the co-creator and co-host of the monthly comedy reading series, How To Kick People. His writing has appeared in Salon, Glamour, Modern Humorist, the Hermenaut, the Onion, and, most frequently, his own web site, tremble.com. He can be seen performing standup comedy throughout New York City."

Here I was thinking who the fuck is Tom Levine and why is he associated with Ben Savage. Silly Kotaku, next you should try associating stories with random religous figures to see if people try to make a connection.

damn this thread got fred savaged

And I thought I was the only one who's life was measured with consoles. I was born 1982. NES was childhood. SNES was late childhood. N64 was teenage/highschool years. GCN was college years. And Wii was embarkment into adult life after college. ^_^

Hah It's the Karate Kid 2.0

but with today's controllers, we've got rumble!! girls have to love that.

When I read that paragraph, I could hear the narrator from the Wonder Years saying it aloud in my mind.

I totally totally thought it was about that savage guy, made me want to read it, stopped after I realised it was about a guy named todd levin.

Oh shit is that Fred Savage?!

Hmmm, crap. I had hoped to write a similarly themed piece someday detailing my long, bizarre relationship with video games. Sadly, having absolutely no such stories with boners involved, much less real-life girls, I think this guy's work is the Universe telling me not to bother.

But come on people. I thought "The Wizard" was crap when I was 12 because I could already spot all the glaring errors. For a movie about video games, the people who made it obviously never played a video game before.

Yargh! I did not need to know that a man "discovered" himself while playing video games.

I think the better question would be who traumatized Beth Rubenstein would be if she ever read that passage.

Anyways, the best part of this is the diagrams with their snarky notations:

"Not Pong"
"God-Like Power"

*rassinfrassin no edit function* Should be _how_ traumatized, not "who".

I get by with a little help from my friends.

I'm glad 99% of the readers here had the exact same reaction I did: 1) I don't know who the fuck this guy is but 2) Damn, does he look like Fred "Wonder Years" Savage or what?!

I always sexualise videogames, just yesturday I finally finished EDF on Hardest with my friend and I called the weak point of the Mothership her "Clit" like "Go get the clit, it's open now." For the GAMECUBE I always called the right yellow Control Stick the "Nipple Stick".

I have a bunch more including a story with a ex I cannot get into ... the point is I am a purvy gamer too.

I do not know why I starting writing this.

OOOOOKKKKK, why would I want to read this??????

@huginn: "Too bad you can't do that with today's controllers."

Unless you've got a Wiimote!

Fred Savage lol......

I thought the article was good, even if fred savage wasnt the focus.

Not sure if anyone else read the article, but it is wonderful; truly the best article I have read so far this year. He is a little older than I am, but he was slightly behind me when it came to consoles, so this should be a good series of articles.