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NES released in North America in 1985. Toddlers are 1-3 years old. I don’t mean to be pedantic but as someone born in 1979, your statement didn’t match my exp
by jgowdy 9y ago
NES released in North America in 1985. Toddlers are 1-3 years old. I don’t mean to be pedantic but as someone born in 1979, your statement didn’t match my experience.
I agree though, I already had significant time on my Atari 2600 and on my father’s Intellivision before NES came out.
- sudosteph 9y agoWhy is toddler the age you use to consider whether someone grew up with game a console? I was born in the early 90s and had a Nintendo 64 first (released in 96). Just because I was 6 or 7 when I got it doesn't mean I didn't effectively grow up with one.
- jgowdy 9y agoToddler is what was said, so toddler is what I was correcting. I didn’t make the statement in your question, “toddler is the age you use to consider whether someone grew up with a game console.”
- eesmith 9y agoMy first game console: http://pongmuseum.com/collection/heathkit-gd1380.php http://pongmuseum.com/collection/heathkit-gd1380.php . Wasn't even the first in the category of "first-generation of video game consoles". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console#First_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console#First_gener... .
- amanzi 9y agoI had one of those too, or something similar at least. Had a few games on it - all variations of Pong
- falcolas 9y agoI'm in pretty close to the same boat. But one thing I've noticed looking back - the games we played in our childhood and early teens were very different than the games my brother-in-law grew up on, and he's only 8 years younger than me. For example, I had no problem setting my Atari games down as a child; there's only so many rounds of Pac-Man I could stand even then. Had I been inducted into gaming with Super Mario World and Final Fantasy II instead, well, my parents would have had a much harder time of it.