RetroGaming

We have a whole retro game station complete with CRT that they can play. They love Mario, Duck Hunt, some of the other games and are now gravitating to Gameboy, SNES and PS One. They like the Switch too, but usually go for the older stuff first.

Spiderman 2: I solely play as Peter Parker. My daughter solely plays as Miles Morales. I wish the game was 2 player.

Minecraft: my daughter watches the YouTube videos yet somehow I'm the one who got us diamond armor. Go figure.

Super Mario Odyssey: She always makes me Mario and she's a good cappy.

She's not even remotely athletic but she's brainy and is pretty popular with her friends. Go figure.

as if everybody gaming in the 90's we were all in sync with each other. lol i was rocking pc win98 tie fighter, and old floppy disc knock off games/ sim city, one kid down the street, she had a Nintendo with 3 Disney games Aladdin, lion king etc, one had a Sega with zombies ate my neighbors, that paper boy game and some sanic. it was pure chaos even later when "everyone" had a ps1 everyone's tastes were completely different. sure there were trends but nobody felt they were stuck in a outdated bubble like op is implying except for that Atari kid. only played pong, fuck that bubble kid neanderthal mutherfucker. lol

i caught my 5yo playing golden eye the other day and i was not disappointed!

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

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

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.

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

• 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.