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I've heard people in the Interwebs ask why anyone cares so much about "old" games, since game tech advances so much. In one forum there were a couple of people

I've heard people in the Interwebs ask why anyone cares so much about "old" games, since game tech advances so much. In one forum there were a couple of people referring to some five-year-old game as an "ancient relic." Meanwhile my kids are literally playing Super Mario Bros right now while I'm typing this comment. That's a 38-year-old game. Every time Mario falls down a hole or gets nailed by a ricocheting turtle shell, I hear squeals of delight and frustration, and then they hit the "continue" option to try the level again for the 15th time. It's not really "angry mad," but "happy frustrated." There's far more quality interaction going on with Super Mario Bros than with whatever random "modern" FPS they sometimes play, where they are mostly zoned out and are getting more "angry mad" rather than "happy frustrated" when they are killed in those games.

effingwewt 4y ago
Social manipulation works far better on children and they figured that out some time ago. I heard my girlfriend's then 10 year old son complaining 5 years ago now about fortnite players being garbage because they had no skins and were called 'noskins'. I didn't play it so I asked if they gave stat increases or anything and he said no, just cosmetic. I asked what a skin had to do with playing ability and was told 'Tch, you just don't get it' -replete with eyeroll. A few months ago heard the same thing from a friend's kid (~same age) who'd just gotten his first xbox. 'Eww noskins', with the added cherry of him complaining about using a controller as it was so much harder than using a phone screen. YouTube was the cause of it back 5 years ago, idk about now, but the companies get their messages in no matter what. It all works far too often and worries me about where we are headed. I often wonder how I'd have turned out if watching GI Joe and Transformers as a kid had beaten me upside the head with more than 'dont steal, drugs bad, police good, buy toys' messages of the 80s.

effingwewt 4y ago

Social manipulation works far better on children and they figured that out some time ago. I heard my girlfriend's then 10 year old son complaining 5 years ago now about fortnite players being garbage because they had no skins and were called 'noskins'. I didn't play it so I asked if they gave stat increases or anything and he said no, just cosmetic. I asked what a skin had to do with playing ability and was told 'Tch, you just don't get it' -replete with eyeroll. A few months ago heard the same thing from a friend's kid (~same age) who'd just gotten his first xbox. 'Eww noskins', with the added cherry of him complaining about using a controller as it was so much harder than using a phone screen. YouTube was the cause of it back 5 years ago, idk about now, but the companies get their messages in no matter what. It all works far too often and worries me about where we are headed. I often wonder how I'd have turned out if watching GI Joe and Transformers as a kid had beaten me upside the head with more than 'dont steal, drugs bad, police good, buy toys' messages of the 80s.