RetroGaming

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

Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL

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

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

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

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

• Mario 64?
• Ocarina of Time?
• ~~Turkish~~Turok?
• 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?

Edit: Ha! Yes, Turok, not Turkish!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Good. May they learn to never preorder.

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.