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After all, I have similar anecdotes, and I grew up in the 2000s. Another anecdote from 2014 watching a kid walk up to a Battlezone 1980 emulator: Waggles the j
by stcredzero 10y ago
After all, I have similar anecdotes, and I grew up in the 2000s.
Another anecdote from 2014 watching a kid walk up to a Battlezone 1980 emulator: Waggles the joysticks around for 2 seconds. This causes the tank to waggle. Kid gives up.
- pitaj 10y agoWhat's the purpose of this comment? Providing another anecdote doesn't invalidate my argument. Nor does it counter what you quoted there.
- stcredzero 10y agoMy thesis is that kids in days past would go to further lengths than kids nowadays to figure things out, mostly out of boredom. Middle class kids in the past also had access to "the sum of all human knowledge" through their public library and inter-library loans, but the barriers were higher than for kids growing up with the Internet. Nowadays, it seems like every kind of game imaginable is being implemented (albeit badly) by someone out there. Providing another anecdote doesn't invalidate my argument. Nor does it counter what you quoted there. Nope. Just sharing. Ok, fine, you win, I guess.