Submitted 7 months ago by Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I feel old.
What are you talking about?
There are parents out there young enough to not remember the remake of Red/Blue.
You can have your parents be younger than Diamond and Pearl before it starts making me think about the failure of social security nets.
You should already be thinking about failure of social security nets.
Look, I do feel some empathy for people stuck in less civilized parts of the planet, but I can't personally care about every self-destructive, violent culture that fails to join modern society, you know?
I do support protecting their refugees, assuming they are willing to, you know, integrate into the culture.
I mean you can technically become a parent at like 11 so this really isnt all that meaningful yeah.
I am literally cutting it off at 18, hence the security net thing.
If you're gonna go into biological limits we're looking at the end of the 3DS era. You could technically have grandparents who weren't born back in Red/Blue days, but we're trying to keep things from getting gross, we're just aiming for depressing.
Some people alive today have only ever seen a floppy disk as the save icon.
My boy is 14 and he’s never even seen a CRT TV. He didnt know where the words “rewind” or “hang up” came from.
That’s actually a big number. There are people that haven’t seen CDs or DVDs.
If we suggest that people 20 years old and younger today, born from 2004, doesnt know the floppy disk.
That would be 33% of the world population. Let that sink in.
You feel old!? I was too old to care about all that pokemon stuff when it came out. I don't remember any pokemon stuff, not because I wasn't born, but because I was already too old when that shit came out
Mostly the same. I had already been married for almost a decade when the N64 came out. I did play Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Snap but I actually have no idea what red and blue are.
They’re the first games in the series. My mom got me Red at like 8yo, on the gameboy color. Good memories
There are parents alive today who weren’t born when 9/11 happened. Or the day after on the 9th December.
Happens every year, doesn’t it?
They released almost 30 years ago. Adding a few more years, since you can’t properly play them with no reading skills, we’are looking at enough time for some of them to be grandparents.
I don’t remember Pokémon Red/Blue and am a parent… So this means I am considered young? 😀
Red, blue, and yellow were cool at the time. But I wouldn’t recommend a kid to play that unless they are already played the other gameboy/GBA games. Fire red and Leaf green would be the better recommendation, especially for younger first time players.
Ps, check out Volt Yellow
No chance. Graphics so scuffed bro like thats so mid was this peak aura in the ancient era?
Volt Yellow looks very promising! I’ll have to check it out some day. Otherwise I tend to recommend HeartGold/SoulSilver as an introduction to the franchise.
Completely agree with you that without nostalgia goggles RBY don’t hold up that well.
have you considered that there are people your age that were broke as kids, or non-westerners, that also don’t remember pokemon red and blue
non-westerners
Japan is western confirmed.
Have you considered the meaning of the words “young enough to”?
i’m saying that what you see as generational divide can be partially also class divide
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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