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duncesplayed@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Another Oregan Trail generation here.
I’m curious about what’s going to happen with Gen Alpha. Any other moms and dads here exposing their kids to retrotech? I have two little ones that I’ve made a DOSBox installation for (Mixed-Up Mother Goose and Donald Duck’s Playground are their favourites). I do wonder how they’re going to think about old tech when they’re older. I haven’t told them that it’s “old” or “retro” yet, so they just think they’re normal fun games.
Yeah my kids get to play 90’s CD-ROM infotainment games. World of Richard Scarry and such. Basic math, phonics and spelling haven’t changed since then and these games are guaranteed to not have any in-app purchases or ads! First it was on a PowerBook G3 that is going bad so it’s been swapped out for an iMac G4.
these games are guaranteed to not have any in-app purchases or ads
That’s a big plus. I also like that they have to use the keyboard, since the mouse can be a bit tricky when you’re young.
I had no idea there was a Richard Scarry game! They love the books, so maybe I should give it a shot. (Though it does look pretty mouse-heavy)
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
And they appreciate it, huh. It makes sense, I guess that’s the digital-age version of a kid playing with the box their toy came in. And man, some of those old games really are timeless. If I had some of my own, and they expressed interest, I’d like to try teaching them from both ends of the stack instead of starting in the middle like I did. It was a bit frustrating knowing how to code, but not how to either make a modern-looking application, or how the code was itself working.