Board 8 > This is the most uncomfortable post I've seen on Kotaku

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http://kotaku.com/5867589/how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-classic-video-games

I'm not quite sure what to think about this.

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the intro paragraph makes it seem satirical

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I am 20 years old
Gone are the days when I would see kids playing Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda

Pretty sure those days were already long gone when he started playing games.

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I am 20 years old, and while not looking for children in the near future, it will become inevitable eventually (girlfriend will make it happen).

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how can we force our children to play through the games we grew up on first?
Why would you want to do this? I don't watch the movies my parents watched, or listen to the music they listened to, and fortunately they never forced me to do it either.

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I think the concern is that all of the old games that we love will become obsolete without the younger generations even giving them a chance, but I'm not sure that's well-founded. I think they'll still enjoy them as much as we did when they find them, and if they don't, then maybe we should rethink whether they truly have as much merit as we think they do. Most game companies, Nintendo especially, still loves re-releasing their old games, and if our kids become as attached to them as we do then that's a sign that they're truly time-tested and aren't going anywhere.

As with film, music, and every other medium... kids won't want to give the old stuff a chance, and they'll hate it when their parents try to force it on them. Once they're older, though, a decent chunk of them will want to at least try some of the classics. Plenty of teenagers today listen to The Beatles and watch classic films like The Godfather, so why wouldn't we expect future teens to play Super Mario Bros.?

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From: Surskit | #005
Why would you want to do this? I don't watch the movies my parents watched, or listen to the music they listened to, and fortunately they never forced me to do it either.

Really? Your dad never had you watch Star Wars as a kid?

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Did anyone's parents force them to start with the Odyssey and Atari 2600 when newer systems from Nintendo were out?

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Because I think, as early adopters of the gaming phenomenon, we feel we have a duty to see the propagation of the medium, when we're still not quite sure that the gaming classics are really things that'll live forever, so we're kind of naturally worried about it. I think the most important thing is making sure that future generations will always have access to the classics, which is why, ironically, completely illegal emulation of games is the absolute most important thing for the long-term health of gaming's history going forward.

I will home school my kids and only give them a VHS player and broadcast my own commercials from the 90s to their antennae powered television.

One day for Christmas, I will bring them an NES, acting like it was just released.

They will not know the truth.

It will be like

*M NIGHT SPOILERS*

The Villiage. But with video games.

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TheKnightOfNee | Posted 12/13/2011 4:43:16 PM | message detail | quote
Did anyone's parents force them to start with the Odyssey and Atari 2600 when newer systems from Nintendo were out?

My mom was like 21 and had her own NES. I mean hell, it wasn't even mine. It was hers. We essentially grew up on the same things.

Me and my brother were the ones who introduced the NES to our familes.

It was awesome seeing my aunt and mom play SMB. Hell my mom was the one who taught me the continue code for it.

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