This will be me when I have children and I am not sorry.
I’ll help them build that foundational understanding of what games were and then if they still wanna play the modern bs, they can.
Anyone else guilty of this?
Submitted 18 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Cooljimy84@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL
TheEntity@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That’s a weird way to spell “Super Nintendo”.
NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
That’s a weird way to spell “Nintendo Entertainment System”.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 15 hours ago
I had a chipped Wii during uni and so we (flatmates + me) downloaded and burned a vast ocean of Wii games.
I don't really see it as the peak of gaming. There's a few good games, like SMG 1 & 2, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than ten exclusives worth revisiting. So much shovelware and low quality ports.
splashgarden@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
i’m totally biased because i grew up in that era, but it’s my favorite console and i’m currently combing through my backlog of wii games i’ve bought over the years or never beat as a kid. sooo many hidden gems! it’s so cheap to find good games for, it’s a great beginner console
shneancy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
meh, maybe one AAA game a year is worth buying, old or indie games are way better
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I was trying to look to see what AAA games come out in 2025, and I think I saw one most parents would agree is fine for younger kids. Maybe the lists I’m finding are aimed at me though.
Gears of War, Ninja Gaiden, Death Stranding, GTA 6, Doom, Assasins Creed, Metal Gear Solid, Elden Ring, Ghost of Yotel, Borderlands, Mafia, Dying Light, Silent Hill and
Sonic Racing.
So depending on the parents I would say 13 AAA Games for 10+ year olds, and 1 for Younger than 10 year olds.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Elden Ring isn’t overly gore-y or anything (though some cutscenes could be considered a bit much for children), but I have a feeling most children trying to play it would find it way too frustrating and difficult and put it down. I’m of the opinion that Elden Ring is only as hard as you make it, but that’s assuming you’re somewhat decent or comfortable playing video games. I could give my wife the most over powered character possible but she wouldn’t be able to beat Margit (first real boss of the game for most people) because she would struggle to even control the character properly. If you’re giving the game to a kid under 10, they probably only have a few years of gaming knowledge and likely won’t be proficient enough in general gaming knowledge to git gud. That’s just my opinion though, I may be way off.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Most of the people buying and playing video games are over the age of 16. Since M-rated games sell the most, it’s not that surprising to see so many new M-rated games.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 hours ago
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I just let my sister have access to my Steam account and it’s turned out alright
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
make a steam family to share your games with friends
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
There are people who grew up with game but are well rounded and sociable. It depends entirely on the person and the type of environment they grew up in.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 13 hours ago
I don’t think that’s what the image is suggesting. More like the kid might be culturally “out of touch” with their generation’s gaming because they play old games instead.
Like, you know, everyone’s talking about Fortnite and Brawl Stars and whatever mobile game is trending right now and they’re like, yesterday I got Fierce Deity in Majora’s Mask.
It’s a bit silly a concern honestly. They’ll take whatever they like in the end, and if that makes them the weird kid, well, that’s how they are, and they’ll survive. Been there, done that.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
.> <.<
I feel called out
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
I don’t think that you need to put your emoticons in a code block, you can just use escapes (backslashes) instead!
>.>
<.<You can see exactly how I did it with the “view source” button in the web version of Lemmy.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Yeah, but his first greater than shows up as blue for me, so that’s cool and all.
splashgarden@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
the first time i ever played video games was on a ps1… in 2009. we didn’t have a lot of money back then and all we had was my dad’s old playstation. he mostly played resident evil and similar games before he had kids; you can’t give preschoolers resident evil unless you want to traumatize them, so i spent hours playing gran turismo and a handful of arcade games on that thing until we got a wii in 2011. this began a trend of our family waiting until the end of a console’s life cycle to purchase it until i got old enough to buy my own consoles. now my parents wonder why i spend my money on old games instead of buying new ones…
osbo9991@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Similar story here, just with my dad’s SNES around that same time. Mainly played link to the past, as it was the only game we had for a bit, but we bought a couple others (super Mario world, where in the world is Carmen San Diego, ms pac man) on eBay later on. Both myself and my dad’s old save states are still on the cartridge last I checked.
Then we got a Wii around 2013 when my uncle was upgrading to Wii U, we got a PS2 slim from my grandparents (to play DDR with these terrible dance pads we never ended up using much), and I got a 3ds xl for my (12th?) birthday. That 3ds was the only console I got when it was even remotely new, and I have moved on to pc games ever since (at least for newer titles). My brother has continued collecting retro games, and has added an Atari 2600, a sega genesis, and my dad’s NES to the collection. Currently, the Wii, PS2, and 3DS have been softmodded and are still used fairly regularly.
It’s probably affected my taste in video games too - I get mostly old stuff or indie titles.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
I feel ya. I scraped the money together to pay for half of a nintendo 64 for my christmas gift around 2001. I bought a used PS2 in 2017. Garage sales are great for finding a system with a lot to got with it.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
My favorite part of the PSP/PS3 era was that they made so many direct ports of PS1 games on the digital store. So I got to experience a lot of old games I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise for dirt cheap.
Plus I could take them on the go and swap my save files easily with my PSP.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
I got Commodore C128 as my first computer when rest of the world was solidly running Pentiums. That had to be around 1997 or something. That might explain my “acquired” taste in games.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Good. May they learn to never preorder.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 14 hours ago
MOO2 from my dad and original Xcom games
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
Not being in the average isn’t necessarily bad, just a bit different. And intolerant jerks will find you being different no matter how much the same you are to them.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I feel this is exactly the same as boomers who raised thier kids on exclusively 70 and 80s “classic” rock.
protist@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Shit, my parents were boomers and raised me on 50s and 60s music. The oldest boomers would’ve been 35 in 1980
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Turns on classic rock station and Green Day is playing. Oh… Huh, yeah I’m not sure I’m ready for this, finds new channel.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The youngest boomers were born in 1964, so they’d be in thier late 20s at the end of the 80’s. Which were my parents.
I also dont think there’s anything wrong with exposing your kids to older media, which was my point. Your kids will seek out new media without you, so giving them a foundation of things that came before helps expand thier knowledge base.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 17 hours ago
I do have a fondness for old rock/metal from that era too and am pretty happy with it, so maybe that's a green light!