Feel Old!

[Guts]

Nothing really shocking in that video, I'd say the kids' reactions are perfectly rational and understandable and even suprisingly positive.

Like Colin said, if someone would have showed me an Atari 2600 as a kid when SNES was out, I'd have probably called it a piece of ****.

[Brad]

I thought the zx81 was junk by about 1983.

[Duncan James Waugh]

You'll be telling us that kids brought up from PS4 gen onwards would much prefer playing on the jaguar to battlefield 4 next. It's just the way kids are, the drama of the adult reactions is sillier than theirs.

Way to exaggerate a point, I didn't say it was an either or like you are making out, just that children can appreciate both old and new with the right mindset. I don't think there's been much drama in this thread, I didn't even watch the thing myself, just commentating on a quote someone picked out.

[Colin]

Hmmm, it must have been an interesting walk toward the old high horse to comment on my post when you hadn't even watched the video.

[englishbob]

Owning a Spectrum, C64, Atari ST and then Amiga before it, I didn't think much of the Gameboy either. An extension of Game N Watch, with interchangable carts.

I had one, with Tetris on it, that was about it.

It had portability going for it. Everything else, nah...

[Dogg Thang]

Only somewhat related but I watched the whole of this a couple of days ago and it brought me right back...



Amazing how different things are now. No wonder my eldest daughter thinks we had to go to the toilet in bushes in the '80s and my youngest thinks we lived with dinosaurs.

[Duncan James Waugh]

Hmmm, it must have been an interesting walk toward the old high horse to comment on my post when you hadn't even watched the video.

I'm genuinely baffled by your reasoning, I can't help but think you've misread what I wrote.

(1) Firstly, where did I "get on a high horse"?

(2) Let's look at the sequence of events:

(i) You made post #13

(ii) I made post #14, in post #14:
-I did not address you, I did not quote you, I did not make any specific comment related you.
-I did not claim to watch the video, I did not make any comment regarding the overall content of the video.
-I made a comment related solely to a couple of quotes provided by other forum members from the video, again nothing to do with your post.
-I described a single example from my life, as have other members of the forum, like Asura literally one post before yours, to make the point the point that not all kids dismiss stuff before their time.

(iii) You reply to me in post #15, misrepresenting the words I wrote - there's a difference between "some of my most fun" and "most fun" - a pretty huge one. Then accuse people of causing "drama." I really can't see anyone else here being dramatic apart from you.

(iv) So I make post #18 to point out that you put words in my mouth and then all of a sudden I'm on a "high horse." And again you misrepresent what I've been saying by throwing in "you hadn't even watched the video" - Yeah that's probably why I never claimed to, and only commented specifically on the select quotes other forum members pulled out. I didn't make any sweeping generalisations about the children in that video or their generation as a whole, but addressed specific instances, so please show where I was hypocritical - which I assume is what you were implying?

I don't get why you are jumping down my throat on this one at all.

[dataDave]

Owning a Spectrum, C64, Atari ST and then Amiga before it, I didn't think much of the Gameboy either. An extension of Game N Watch, with interchangable carts.

I had one, with Tetris on it, that was about it.

It had portability going for it. Everything else, nah...

Well, like every other Nintendo platform it has a handful of all-time classics on it besides Tetris. Link's Awakening is always considered one of the best Zeldas.

On a slightly related note I've been playing Super Metroid for the third time this past week and it just seems to get better with every passing generation. So far it's been highlighting how overly pretentious most of this indie crap that gets churned out actually is. There's absolutely no bull**** about the game at all. I'd like to think kids in the future could pick something like this up and genuinely appreciate it for what it is without mocking the tech.

[dataDave]

It does happen and it's all relative. Before I endulged my nieces in WiiU eye-candy their only experience with video games were the NES classics on my Wii, and then DKC emulated on their parent's laptop. The level of engagement paralleled my own when I was playing that stuff at their age.

Unleashing the 3DS and WiiU on them didn't exactly blow their minds as much as what it probably should have. An interesting experiment.