RetroGaming

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.

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 from 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" if 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.

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.

Good. May they learn to never preorder.

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)

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...

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.

Katt Williams' kid didn't mind.

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)