Chronogamer

Yay! 12 games with a system! Sounds more fun than it actually is, right?

 

Well, all in all, I like those games. But I'm weird.

Well, all of the games are "fun" in a meta sense. I think it's all about having the right attitude and enjoying the people you're playing with. I think games used to require someone to bring the fun a lot more than they do now. (any game, I mean look at tic-tac-toe with pencil and paper. Fun? meh. but how often did we play it when were were in grade school? It was something easy to do with friends.)

 

All in all, I agree, I like the games too and spending time playing them with my kids was so much more fun than watching Ultraman with them would have been. I mean, not that they remember it very much, but I always will.

Maybe they will remember it. If they are still interested in gaming, they have a richer background than most kids nowadays have. They have a better understanding on how we got here and, with that, have a greater appreciation for the games they now play. On top of that, they'll get retro/classic references in modern games.

 

Oh, and they won't vomit if someone shows them a crap game from hell.

On 9/29/2012 at 8:03 PM, Nelio said:

Maybe they will remember it. If they are still interested in gaming, they have a richer background than most kids nowadays have. They have a better understanding on how we got here and, with that, have a greater appreciation for the games they now play. On top of that, they'll get retro/classic references in modern games.

 

Oh, and they won't vomit if someone shows them a crap game from hell.

Something interesting about this, all these years later, my son is in his 20s now and has been living away from home for almost five years now. (Yes, I miss him terribly and I'm about to be missing his sister, too.) He was having a conversation with a roommate at one point and suddenly realized that most people, in fact, no one he was meeting at university, had ever played, say, the Fairchild Channel F, or an Odyssey^2, or even an Atari VCS! He had to stop and blink a moment when he realized that his experience with older video games was rare and pretty unique amongst all the other humans he's ever likely to meet in person.