Anyone else guilty of this?

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One thing about old games (pre n64), is that you don’t have to worry about controlling the camera. Younger kids like 5 or so have a hard time enough time timing button presses so making them also have to figure out how to control the camera/is very frustrating for them. Isometric, top down, and point and clicks work best for younger kids.

  I also think the super Nintendo controller is the best for children and people with small hands. 8bitdo makes a good modern one with more buttons and triggers so you can play modern games.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was thinking about picking that controller up. My 3 y/o has been using a pro controller, and it seems too big.

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• SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I feel this is exactly the same as boomers who raised thier kids on exclusively 70 and 80s “classic” rock.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shit, my parents were boomers and raised me on 50s and 60s music. The oldest boomers would’ve been 35 in 1980

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • SlippiHUD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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• arararagi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You are just giving your kids more options, most don’t have that choice and can only play whatever launches for phones or switch.

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  • Vile_port_aloo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Phones, tablets other portable devices are where this generation is at. There is a question of when you give your child access to brain rot materials. Assuming they are above 12 in this situation, they are already in touch with the general status quo of digital entrainment. The ego they will gain and cool points in the future is unknown but working in Education I feel students with a boarder background make for Better Humans. In the UK most public spaces like community centre or library, school will always have computer relics in a cupboard. A good Gamer will seek these out even if they don’t have a dad, which is maybe the reason they are there…

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• sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i caught my 5yo playing golden eye the other day and i was not disappointed!

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I still play animal crossing new leaf. Just got the golden net the other day (my town has been going since 2013)

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  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    3DS is still awesome even in 2025.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t think it’ll ever be not awesome.

      I’d love someone to make a modern foldable smartphone in the shape of a 3ds. With the controls and everything, and a stylus. But also cellular capabilities and a modern camera system. Most of all, a chip that can emulate the 3ds. Would be even cooler if one eventually came out that can emulate the Wii U.

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• Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  • Mario 64?
  • Ocarina of Time?
  • Turkish?
  • Goldeneye?

  This kid is about to meet one of the gaming gods.

  Kid’ll be fine.

  Besides, what super awesome lifestyle changing game is out right now that the kid will miss?

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Turkish?

    One of these things is not like the other... I tried to look this up and can't find it. My best guess is a typo for Turok?

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve tried to figure out what your typo for “Turkish” was supposed to be. I can only assume “Turok”.

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  • ghen@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Roblox 🤮

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ehhh, there’s a lot of crap on Roblox, but some of it isn’t bad. There’s just the obvious UI bullshit and constant spam to buy shit, but I take that opportunity to shit on people who do that so that my kids understand that’s a dirty practice.

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• Hacksaw@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As long as we all raise our kids this way, they won’t be out of touch with their peers!

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• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Introducing kids to old games is great, but restricting them from experiencing their own generations culture, not so much

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  • TimeNaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Except when that culture is full of predatory shit like microtransactions

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, kids shouldn’t be allowed to play Undertale, Armored Core 6, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XVI, Hollow Knight, or Stardew Valley.

      They’ll play shovelware and like it, just like we did!

      There are plenty of great games today and horrible games from when we grew up (E.T. anyone?), the trick is to filter the good from the bad and show them what to watch out for.

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  • blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also, forcing your kids to play your favorite old games assumes that your games were the best games.

    They were fun in their day, but time moves on. Assuming that everything since you formed your opinions is inferior is some big boomer energy.

    Let them find their own fun with their friends on their terms. Making your kids play your old crap with you is kinda sad.

    I think Minecraft is boring as hell and I’m not gonna play it, but I’m not going to force my kids to play mega man 2 instead.

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  meh, maybe one AAA game a year is worth buying, old or indie games are way better

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Cooljimy84@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL

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  • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a weird way to spell “Super Nintendo”.

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    • NinePeedles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a weird way to spell “Nintendo Entertainment System”.

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • splashgarden@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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• KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  we are currently playing stardew valley and I don’t think harvest moon would hit as well, but maybe that’s an exception overall, they truly just enjoy hard simpler games like the classics are

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nah… it’s okay. She won’t be out of touch. Nintendo is going to release these games for the Switch 2 for $80.

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• carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think the trick is to just let kids play what they want

  as a kid I grew up with basically every generation of nintendo consoles up to the Wii U, as well as a PC (well, a mac really but whatever) and I turned out fine

  i missed out on some of the big sensations of the moment, like fortnite or COD, but tbh I didn’t care, these games never interested me and they still don’t

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think the shared experience there is gaining most of your social interactions through an video game for a period of time during childhood. Its not always the same game and it doesnt even have to be online, but its the shared focal point among a group of people. Sort of like a coffee shop or park.

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• Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• Gin@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I do plan to start my sons on retro games starting when they’re about 4 years old. They’ll basically get an abridged experience of some of the best games of each generation.

  They should be on modern games by the time they’re old enough for it to matter in terms of relating to their peers. And it’s not like I’d say “no” of they said their friends wanted to play a particular game with them just because it’s from the “wrong” generation.

  I’m also not going to force the issue if they just aren’t receptive to it. Everyone has different interests.

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I assumed my kids would love games, but they’re just not that interested. I got my six-year-old obsessing over one of the UFO 50 games, at least until she couldn’t progress any further, but for the most part toys are just way more exciting.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• splashgarden@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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…

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  • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • osbo9991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My favorite musical artists as a child (90s) were John Denver; Peter, Paul, and Mary; the Beatles; and Cream. I didn’t ever get into boy bands, but I can sing along to the absolute biggest spice girl hits.

  That was only really a hindrance in elementary school because in middle school I branched out into more contemporary musicians. Now, I’ve got a lot more knowledge about the 70s in music than most of my peers, but I’m not isolated from the things my peer group likes (I will lose my shit to Mr. Brightside or Yeah by Usher if I’m drunk, but I definitely will as well for anything from Carole King’s Tapestry)

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• bobbyguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  as a kid a never played the same games as my friends, and since that’s all they would talk about i was pretty distant from the group, also that guys daughter looks like she’s old enough to rent a property and just buy her own games.

  (but all those old games really are better than what we have now)

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• alansuspect@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I got a Miyoo Mini plus for mine, installed onionos and loads of games from internet archive. They love it, maybe one day I’ll set up my dusty wiiU but i only have Mario kart for it. Or some kind of minipc set up.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Katt Williams’ kid didn’t mind.

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• VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good. May they learn to never preorder.

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• DiskCrasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  C64 reboot: a.co/d/2uyn43m

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• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  .> <.<

  I feel called out

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for the tip, I did the code block as a quick edit because I knew it would at least work.

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, but his first greater than shows up as blue for me, so that’s cool and all.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• ckmnstr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  definitely one day

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• LucidLyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I am and I don’t care.

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I just let my sister have access to my Steam account and it’s turned out alright

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    make a steam family to share your games with friends

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what we do. Steam family with my other friends too

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• Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  MOO2 from my dad and original Xcom games

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