/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2665248
Introduce your kids to them, they'll love it. Kids nowadays love Minecraft and that's definitely not top of the line in graphics or story. Kids will like anything that's fun, plus you'll get to share a bit of your childhood with them and have a cool thing to bond over.

>>2665253

Every person is different.
A lot of new games look like old games anyway (indies, etc) so what's the point of your wife? She wants your kids only playing COD and GTA?

>>2665248
>What makes us play "retro" games?
I'm old.

Because they're fun.

They're free and fun.

I'd explain that I don't play them because they are retro, I play them because they look/are fun regardless of their age. For every good game there is also a bad game, and this applies to both retro and non-retro, which is why I think there's nothing wrong with children playing retro games along with modern games. If you want a reason beyond "it's fun", then the reason is to not judge a book by its cover, or in this case, by their outdated pixelated graphics.

Retro games had many different unwritten rules of design, and it's interesting to see what changed for better and for worse both in terms of design and technology. For example, back then you had passwords to record your progress while now every game has save features and many have a dedicated stage selection screen. Passwords as a way to save progress are unthinkable in this day and age.

There's also the way people learn to play games: back then, you read the manual and then experimented and died horribly until you figured it out, while today most games have some level of instructions in the game itself (sometimes to the point of being obnoxious) and big detailed manuals are a thing of the past, so that feeling of discovering and experimentation isn't so common anymore.

Nostalgia shouldn't be a reason in this debacle, because obviously your kids won't be able to emphasize, and while it sounds silly to us, games like Call of Duty are going to be nostalgic to them someday.

tl;dr just give them some fun games to play.

>>2665248
By playing on a Retron of course!
OP himself and his wife have already found out that the Retron will give you the ultimate Retro experience!

>>2665248
>arguing with your wife over video games

Anyhow...

People play older games mostly because the PS1 era and beyond has sucked for certain genres. That's why no one really plays 2D racing games anymore because the 3D ones just completely obsolete them, but people still play 2D platformers since they hardly make those anymore.

I think it's a good idea to introduce children to game systems in the order they came out, like maybe a newer one every year for their birthday, so that in the end, they can appreciate everything. I plan to do that with my kids so we can bond over the same childhood memories and such. I've thought about it before, it would go like:

2nd birthday - atari
3rd - nes
4 - snes
5 - gameboy
6 - n64
7 - gbc or gba
8 - ps1
9 - gamecube
10 - xbox
11 - ps2
12 - wii
13 - xbox 360
14 - ps3
15 - wii u
16 - xbox one
17 - ps4
18th birthday would be whatever consoles are left or current at the time. Then it would be finished

>>2665341
cute, but your kid is gonna hate you.
Do you remember how much you wanted whatever the current console was when you were a kid? The games your classmates were playing, that they advertise on TV that look so cool?

What you are doing is basically the same as asking for a SNES with SMW and getting a Tiger Handheld.

If you want to bond with your kid over video games, play video games with them. Their video games. Don't force them to play yours.

Ask your wife why we read old books. Why bother with old, dated stories (Great Gatsby, Count of Monte Cristo, Pride & Prejudice - take your pick) when there's so many new novels coming out?

>>2665248
You don't have a wife, do you, you fat unemployed 40 year old NEET.

I play them because they're free.
Believe me, if I could afford a Wii U/PS4/XBox one/a good computer, I'd play way more newer games. Also if games weren't so expensive, which is why I never play my 3ds despite owning one.

>>2665341
Good idea, but too slow of a growth. By about 10, they really need to be playing current gen if they don't want to be a social outcast.

You can get this done between ages 4-9 easy. Let them pick after that.

>>2665248
>What makes us play "retro" games?

>I've had an argument with my waifu

Fixed that for ya

>>2665248
>same eerie feeling when Simon entered the castle

Sons first game was CASTLEVANIA. He said that the intro was pretty cool, but gave him the heebee jeebees

>>2665341
Holy shit, the level of control over a child in this plan is, frankly, disturbing. Don't you remember at all what it's like to be a little kid? Have you completely forgotten wonder of exploring the world at that age? All you have to do is once they're about 4 is plop your systems & games in front of them and let them have at it. They WILL try all the games on their own and they will discover the ones they like on their own. Now the one restraint I would put is limit their early years to just cartridge-based systems. Once they're older and can learn how to properly handle a CD, you can give them the disc-based systems too.

Nostalgia goggles. Retro games only seem superior to me because I grew up with them.

If I had to provide some objective reason, I guess difficulty factor is an important quality that newer games don't reproduce very well. For instance, between Dark Souls and Ghosts 'n Goblins, I find GnG to be a more enjoyable experience because it's that much more difficult to survive. Once you do manage to progress, it seems all the more rewarding. Dark Souls requires rote memorization or grinding, whereas GnG demands extreme precision.

A lot of them have interesting mechanics.

>>2665341
There's a guy who did essentially this with his kid (except it ended at age 9 not 18 you weirdo) and posted results, seemed cute. Can't remember what it was called, there was a whole article on some website.

You can lead the horse to the well, but you can't make him drink from it.

>>2665272
>outdated pixelated graphics
The grpahics argument always facinated me. In my opinion, when a game tries to be realistic, it will fail miserably. By time, it will look awful. Even today's GTAs and Far Crys will look like garbage one day. But if a game tries to be, well, a game, and not a life simulator, and tries to find its own style, it will have timeless graphics in the end. Like I can not say that Super Mario World is "ugly" since it looks like a drawing. And as I see, most of the SNES era games, for example, have this kind of pixelated graphics, so I never understood when someone found it unappealing (I know you're not one of them if it wouldn't be clear). I don't think that the systems available at the time hold back the game industry to make fun looking games.
>Retro games had many different unwritten rules of design
Don't forget the life system. How you needed to repeat many levels over and over again because you have lost all your lives. Now you can start from the nearest checkpoint. Sometimes this older technique feels like a good way of punishing, it made you understand that you need to get better to go further, but in other cases, you can see that they just wan't to make the game longer in this way.

>>2665371
I like you a lot. For some reason I love when games don't give themselves to me easily. That adrenalin rush when you plan your every single move…
Have you tried Super Meat Boy and Hotline Miami yet? Only time in recent years when I felt I'm playing with something like GnG again.

>>2665248
I have the same idea as you OP i have a huge collection of snes, n64 and gamecube games i'm going to give to my kid when he's around five. You can say it's nostalgia goggles or whatever but i have no interest in any new games and if my kid decides he wants new games instead of my collection then so be it.

>>2665286
I don't think OP and his wife wants that shitbox

>>2665341
Why would you artificially limit his fun like that? Just start him out with a bunch of 2D consoles until he's like 5 or 6, to give him a taste for those kinds of games, but don't arbitrarily limit his enjoyment of later/modern games as much as you suggest.

It's fine if you want him to have some appreciation for older games and you can certainly start him out with 8/16/32 bit games when he's real young, but sooner or later he's gonna be exposed to modern games (probably from friends), and if you arbitrarily bar him from playing modern games he's gonna hate you, don't do that to him, and don't do that to yourself.

>>2665248

I'd compare it with older movies and TV shows. My dad would watch AMC for older movies from the 40s/50s and he'd watch reruns of shows like Perry Mason.

Now he didn't force me to watch anything he was watching but if I decided to stop what I was doing to watch for a bit he didn't tell me to go away.

I feel if you're going to introduce your kid to retro games just do it naturally through their own interest instead of forcing them to play. They may not want to play right now and might not even bother until they're adults.

tldr: let your kids discover it because they're interested instead of forcing your hobby onto them. They'll love it more and you'll be happier that they took a genuine interest rather than having your hobby forced on them.

>>2665349
Jesus Savage AF fam

>>2665341

>No Sega
>Good parenting

Kill yourself

>>2665248
The zephyr breeze from our childhood

>>2665341
>giving your 12yr old a Wii for his/her birthday

I'm sure in the year 202x your kid will be so happy to get an outdated system while all his friends get the latest systems.

Imagine if your dad decided to buy you a ball and cup for your birthday because he wanted you to experience the toys from his youth.

>>2665352
>Also if games weren't so expensive, which is why I never play my 3ds
3DS has got a flashcard years ago.

>>2665518
>I'm sure in the year 202x your kid will be so happy to get an outdated system while all his friends get the latest systems

I don't even say about the 8th gen in 203x.

>>2665496
Maybe he doesn't want to risk exposing his son to Sanic and causing him autism?

I like retro games (particularly arcade games) because they tend not to overcomplicate things. They take one good idea, take it to a logical extreme and don't feel the need (or simply can't because of hardware limitations) to mess around with it by adding a bajillion layers of guff like achievements, leaderboards and other modern annoyances that every game now apparently has to have lest they be a “bad game”.

I enjoy any game with simple mechanics that are difficult to master, and there are simply more of these available if I play older games.

>>2665573
I got heavily exposed to sanic in the gamecube. I could have been an autist.

That's fucked man. Just introduce them to the older Marios and then let their exploration of vidya develop. You can't force taste onto somebody.

>>2665624
Whoops, meant to reply to >>2665341

I grew up playing SNES games and really like the 2d movement styles.
It felt like I had more of a sense of progression. I can boot up Super Mario World, get through large portions of the game in a sitting. Or I can boot up some modern rpg and get through part of the first area in an hour or two, which ends up feeling monotonous.

>Why watch Citizen Kane or Casablanca when there are so many good new movies to watch?

>>2665637
Cause those 2 movies are overrated tripe

Fite me

I am afraid my kid will usurp my spot and take over my sweet battle station

I still want to introduce him to good games, bird on his own system

>>2665597
>not to overcomplicate things
>take one good idea, take it to a logical extreme
This should be every game developer's mantra.
This could also go into this anon's thread: >>2662631

>>2665637
Why does everyone call Citizen Kane a classic? It was okay. Was it like the first big twist ending?

Somewhere along the line games became movies that I just don't have the time or interest to press buttons through.

>>2665637
This is the correct answer.

My mom forced me to watch Star Wars: A New Hope when I was a kid in the 90s. The movie was almost 20 years old at that point. It quickly became my favorite movie and I fell in love with the series, just as many children continue to do today when shown those films by their parents.

Good art is timeless because it appeals to something beyond the contemporary. Super Mario World will never stop being a fun game, even 200 years from now when interactive technology is nothing like it is today.

>>2665341
Your child is doomed.

>>2665248

retro>new games

because of the ever increasing corporization of games. corporations try to make everything safe, easy, automatic and mass-friendly as to maximize profit. in the old days developers made profits too but the games where more important. it wasn't soley about money and there was no EA.

There is also way better story-telling/writing in old games. At least the games i like.

>>2665557

Regardless the list is idiotic and heavily leaning on the control freak side. I'm hoping that this is a lits for a hypothetical child because if not you're a shit parent.

>>2665695

Don't know off hand but it likely did a lot of things story/cinematography wise that were at its time very original and noteworthy. Why not look it up and find out for yourself?

>>2665341

Holy shit, never have kids.

>>2665248
My dad never especially introduced old games, I was just finding them on my own and I found them pretty fun.
Don't limit your child with retro systems, the future will never be like the past. So, let (him? her? whom are you raising?)decide on your own, when your child will be able to do own decisions, but be a perfect guide in the world of videogames.

Introduce them to the most violence filled games first to get them ready for the real world and then once they are 18 and can understand the difference between fantasy and reality they will be allowed to play Kirby.

Just play them yourself. If you're kid is interested in what your doing, they'll ask. Don't force your taste on your kid, it's like brainwashing

Let them free to play what they want and play your old games normally in front of them. If they feel like playing with you, do it. If they don't care, wait for them to get older to tell and show what you like in games. If they feel free to do what they want in videogames, the curiosity comes and the will to learn different things comes too. If they feel forced, they will hate everything about retrogames.

>>2665248
Old games have that kinda 'content over looks' thing i like in my life.
Also, my pc too old for recent titles

For me personally: I find that retro games were more geared towards kids/teenagers in mind when they were made (Since up until the late 90s to early 00s, games were mainly considered something for kids to do), so you have the vast majority of high quality retro games with a more accessible age range in mind when made (I think this is where the perceived "Fun factor" comes from). Now a days, the largest gaming demographic are the 20-30 year olds, so game companies are making more games that, that age range is more apt to purchase (Ironic that a lot of us from that demographic are flocking to the retro remakes anyways). So that's why if I ever have kids, I'll want to introduce them to something more easily accessible and yet still fun for their ages.Granted by the time they're in their mid teens, they'll probably develop tastes of their own, but until then I'd like to keep the retro options open.

>>2665248
Newer games have been homogenized as a result of the immense production costs that strongly discourage risk taking or unusual and individualist designs. Most of them are basically addictive like gambling machines and condition younger players to embrace the evils of capitalism.

My suggestion is that maybe your wife is a basic bitch

>>2665341
>>2nd birthday - atari
Have you ever even seen a 2 years old kid?

>>2665248
There are good games both in retro games and in modern games, and I think younger gamers should experience some of the great games of the past because its good variety.

>>2665893
nigga wut?
ALL the retro systems had their cash grab, shit tier, shovelware games. Hell just look at 99% of the LJN titles for the NES and SNES and all the horribly rushed and shitty licensed games for every system. The difference you're seeing is the near instant access game publishers have to market data.
Back in the day you'd release a game, game would sell and you'd only have those sales figures to go on. So you'd release...Let's say: A shitty movie tie in game to the masses. They would eat it up because "Oh man! I loved that movie, so the game has to be good as well!" so the company sees huge opening day profits and thus consider it a successful launch. But with the public they realize that the game is shit and that they've wasted their money and outside of telling some of their friends, they really have nowhere to say "Hey don't buy this game, it sucks!"
Now: With the internet, people have a platform to call out these shitty games. Information is available within hours of a game's release whether it's shit or not, so publishers play it safe. Try to appease the masses and get their neogaff and metacritic scores up.
Take of the nostalgia glasses and realize that as much as shit changes, much of it remains the same.

>>2665248
Why do people watch "old" movies? Does Terminator 2 being 30 years old mean its not a good movie anymore?

>>2666370
I hate terminator 2 because seeing MP5s makes me nostalgia too hard. :(

>>2666353
>Newer games have been homogenized as a result of the immense production costs that strongly discourage risk taking or unusual and individualist designs.
Not that it wasn't always that way and 90% of 3rd-4th gen games weren't cookie-cutter side scrollers.

>>2665637
Yes but of the hundreds of movies made in the 30s-40s, just a tiny handful are still remembered and appreciated today.

>>2665518
My grandfather tried to get my dad into toy trains but he couldn't do it. When my dad was a kid, it was in the mid-60s when trains had already fallen out of favor and slot cars were the "in" thing.

they were made before the time of intense commercialization and AAA sameness, resulting in a generally freer atmosphere as far as game design and story go.

>>2665248
i know exactly what you mean. like comparing smash four to smash 64. 64 is actually fun, while 4 just kisses up to tryhards on for glory.

>>2665248
Yeah, it's because they're fun. Added bonus is they don't have hours of unskipable cunt scenes and "quick" time events.

>>2665341
>I pulled some numbers out of my ass.
You're going to subject a 2 year old to "atari"? Hopefully you'll change your mind by the time you're old enough to reproduce.

>>2666594
>they were made before the time of intense commercialization and AAA sameness

;)

>>2666563

How many NES games didn't consider of "Run around a scrolling level punching/stomping/shooting baddies, kill boss, collect magic talisman, repeat until beating the final boss."

keep the stuff in the vicinity. old electronics and weird box art is going to entice your kid to play them by their own device most likely, you don't have to force them. it's enough to say that you liked a certain title or whatever
they should obviously be allowed to play newer stuff, you are not your kid and they must be allowed to create their own childhood memories. it'd be weird if my dad forced me to play pacman instead of letting me enjoy multiplayer matches in mario kart 64 with my friends

Ok, question to you guys.
Will you/do you play games with your kid?
Not only retro, any video games really?

>>2666619
>Will you/do you play games with your kid?

That would imply that people on 4chan will ever reproduce.

>>2666619
I would. Although if a game was really, like REALLY shit I would try to get out of the situation

>>2666619
>Will you/do you play games with your kid?
>Not only retro, any video games really?

Can you imagine playing vidya with the typical 15 year old? "Fuck off, Dad you uncool old fucking fart."

>>2666634
Not if you adapt him to it from younger age.
Also,
>letting your kid talk to you like that

>>2666650
>Not if you adapt him to it from younger age

You clearly know zilch about teenagers, Anon.

>>2666656
Oh, I know alot about teenagers, Anon.
I'm one myself.

>>2665248
I'm only 14, But I LOVE super Mario world

>>2666603
luckily nobody on 4chan ever has to worry about reproducing

>>2665248
if you go out of your way to play retro games just because theyre retro than youre probably either retarded or old and sad. as for good retro game, their design seems to be more well-thought out and less market pandering like today's games. even good modern vidya titles have this problem and outside of failed mascots/doom clones nobody remembers anyway, this seemed like much less of a thing back then

>>2665341
good thing people this autistic never have kids

>>2666693
I reported this post three hours ago. Why isn't he banned yet?

>>2666926
Mods are asleep.

>>2665341
what the fuck just let him use all of your consoles when he wants. if he prefers modern vidya than he prefers modern vidya and you are a sociopathic parent if you cant accept that

>>2665248
>there are so many new games for their generation, why would they bother with older ones?
This is a really weird argument. You wouldn't tell someone not to bother listening to Beethoven when there's so much new music.
Why I play retro games, I love 2D platformers and there aren't really very many new ones being made.

>>2665341
I love how much hate this post has gotten.

>>2666952
>LJN games
>Acclaim games
>shit like Yo! Noid
>being compared with Beethoven
Only on 4chan could someone make this claim unironically.

Yeah...no. There was always shovelware and piles of unimaginative cookie-cutter games. The good old days never was.

>>2666963
I wasn't comparing anything to anything. I was saying the "why old media when new media" argument is weird and would be considered ridiculous applied to any other medium.

Suppose y'all was 10 years old in 2002 and you wanted Vice City for Christmas, but your dad forced you to play Space Invaders instead. What would y'all feel about that?

>>2665272
>because obviously your kids won't be able to emphasize, and while it sounds silly to us, games like Call of Duty are going to be nostalgic to them someday.

>trying to start a "us vs them" age war on /vr/
I shiggidy diggidy do.

>>2666590

Your dad should be into slot cars and I hope he didn't try to fit you into that..slot

>>2667036
I never heard him express any opinion on slot cars one way or another.

>>2666568
So?

>>2665248
Contrary to some people on this board, I will not think highly, let alone play a game simply because it was made before a certain time. I enjoy games that have aged well and still get a kick out of playing them today, That and I missed plenty of amazing titles over the years.

>>2665528

A 10-year old shouldn't be playing GTA in any case.

>>2665893
>the games where more important
>it wasn't soley about money
I'm sorry but did you miss those mountains of terrible license games?
Did you miss those droves of identical sports games?

Did you forget the masses of worthless shit which was pushed on the 2600, Commodore, NES, and so on?

That shit didn't change, not much, it's just flashier now, and more approachable for casuals and noobs, which makes sense, because if you're gonna make a cashgrab, might as well make it so that it's real easy to get into and play, to encourage a wider audience.

Look at Beetlejuice, a shitty cashgrab, but it's hard, casuals wont get far in it. You can't make a shitty cashgrab too hard to get into and enjoy, you'll scare away the suckers you were fishing after.

The shitty games of today aren't all too far from the old ones, they just got better at making them and reaching their market. Call Of Duty wouldn't be nearly as huge as it is if it wasn't simple and approachable, there wouldn't be close to as many kids and dudebros playing if it was like Contra and you could only take one hit.

>>2667118
And why were 90% of Famicom games just pachinko and JRPGs?

>inb4 that same fucker who always points out the pachinko DQ clone

>>2667118

There are far less truly terrible games nowadays, yeah. As in really unplayable buggy shit, due to internet companies who release crap like NES had would ruin their reputation quickly.
Really, you can find great games for any big system if you're informed and know whats good. But I'd rather pick a random PC game from 2014 than a Famicom game, let's not pretend which one is more likely to be shit.

>>2667141
They even made a pachinko Dragon Quest clone!

>>2665473
>>2665518
>>2665345

Listen to these niggers.

As much as I like retro games, it's because they're nostalgic to ME and remind me of my childhood.

Forcing your memories on your child and expecting them to enjoy it is wrong, they need to be playing the games/systems their friends play or they'll get left out and feel alienated.

You're the equivalent of the dad who makes his teenager daughter listen to AC:DC records on vinyl because "modern music is all crap".

http://www.theonion.com/article/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-h-26132

>>2665893
>it wasn't soley about money and there was no EA.

How far are you going back? To fucking Pong?

EA has been around since 1982.

>>2666370

Err T2 won't be 30 years old for another 7 years yet, future-boy.

>>2667184
>The Onion
Come on, dude.

>>2667204

Point still stands

>>2667184
Talking Heads were a little too underground/alternative. The pic would work better with some godawful 70s-80s buttrock like REO Speedwagon.

>>2665286
>not using the original console and controller
>ultimate retro experience

>>2667184
>As much as I like retro games, it's because they're nostalgic to ME
If you only play shit out of nostalgia, you would be advised to drink paint varnish.

>>2667214

It's not the only reason I play retro games, but it's definitely one of the major factors.

Also, I have a full time job, wife, kids of my own and busy life. I do play modern games too, but they're all so fucking long. With retro games I can pick up and play for 20 mins when I have a break, with a modern AAA title it could be 20-60 hours of gameplay, that shit will take me like 2 years to get through.

javascript:quote('2667216')

RPGs, adventure games and shit were always long. Action games have became shorter on average since the early 2000s, I remember when games was scored lower for lasting only 12-15sh hours, now that's pretty good for major title.

>>2667216
RPGs, adventure games and shit were always long. Action games have became shorter on average since the early 2000s, I remember when games was scored lower for lasting only 12-15sh hours, now that's pretty good for major title.

>>2667216
>Also, I have a full time job at Burger King, waifu
Fixed that for you.

>>2667226

Well memed

>>2667225

I never used to play RPGs to be honest, they weren't that popular over here (UK). Mostly platformers, shoot em ups or adventure games, but even stuff like Secret of Money Island could be finished in a day or two. I've probably only finished 2 or 3 modern games in the last decade.

>>2667214
>>2667209

Music is seen as more credible by most people for some reason.

My brother is 31 but he makes fun of me for playing old games, calling me stuck in the past and saying they're shit compared to modern titles.

He doesn't listen to any music made after 1999 though, which he sees as totally different. >>2667184

>>2665286

Does the Retron play ROM's?

>>2667235
Post pics of your kids if you really have them.

>>2666484
>tfw submachineguns are basically becoming obsolete

They're so fun though! ( ._.)

>>2667226
We get it, you're bitter and want to project your frustration at your own failures onto others.

4chan appeals to a lot of people, it's not just all neckbeards in their basements, there's people with real jobs and families.

>>2666370
>Does Terminator 2 being 30 years old mean its not a good movie anymore?
Terminator 2 was not good to begin with, the first one is the only good movie in the series.

>>2667410
Graphics in Terminator 1 aged badly and it was filled with artificial difficulty, Kyle Reese could've brought a plasma gun wrapped in bacon

>>2667397
>4chan appeals to a lot of people, it's not just all neckbeards in their basements, there's people with real jobs and families

>>2667417
>Graphics in Terminator 1 aged badly
Why are you even on /vr/
>it was filled with artificial difficulty
>He can't 1cc the first Terminator
Kek

>>2667216

Retro games are great for pick up and play sessions. With new games you really have to have a block of time allocated. Fuck, the tutorial on most games is longer than 20 minutes, not to mention install times.

I recently wanted to play Grand Turismo 5 on my PS3, I had an hour spare, put the disc in for the first time in a year or two, had 27 updates that totaled around 6.4GB, by the time it had downloaded it was the next day.

>>2667420
Nah, I guess you're right, social security is more than enough to fund muscle cars, powerhouse computers, real estate, pre-86 machineguns, and large collections of all sorts of things.

Nope, don't need a well paying job (implying a successful lifestyle) to afford any of those things. Everyone on 4chan lives in their parent's basement/alone, and subsists on a WalMart job/social security, there are no varying demographics at all, it's homogenous.

>>2667453
Stop replying to retards, no one cares and it only fuels the shitposting.

>>2667453
>Nah, I guess you're right, social security is more than enough to fund muscle cars, powerhouse computers, real estate, pre-86 machineguns, and large collections of all sorts of things.

Yep, we all fantasize about owning cool stuff and fucking supermodels every night. You, me, everyone. :^)

>>2665248
>I've had an argument with my wife.
You should get the Retron5 asap. It's known to keep marriage smooth sailing! Don't delay, buy today!

>>2665341
lol
no
you'll end up raising a complete weirdo
just let the kid play what he wants with his own friends in their own generation you sperg. if he wants to get into retro shit that's fine but don't fucking force his hand.

you guys take video games way too seriously. most of you are beyond help. a bunch of socially stunted retards, I swear to god. it would be better if you gave your child up for adoption; I swear to god he'd have more of a chance that way than being raised by the likes of you. shit why am I even typing this, not like you fruitcakes are ever gonna reproduce anyway

>>2665341
here is mine.
>age 5 (because kids shouldn't spend every day of their lives on videogames)
>allow access to all my consoles
>age 7
>give him the latest and greatest because he would already be in school around this time and the start of primal school is the start of social stigma for a child

>>2667457
>>2667453
Samefag.

Stupid meta blog thread

Because I think they are on average way better designed than modern games.

Because I often love the graphics.

Because I often love the music.

Because I didn't play them when I was a kid and I want to appreciate what was once good about the videogame world.

I still play modern games, but not as much as I used to, and mostly indie/niche stuff.
CoD online is fun, though. At least the ones I played (CoD4, MW2)

Let your kid play whatever the fuck they want. Don't be one of those faggots that force your nostalgia upon your own children, what are you some neckbeard 20 year old dad?

I started with the N64 the christmas it launched. After that I found my dad's SNES and NES and loved the 2D sprite graphics over the N64s 3D.

That is how it should be. ffs do not stick an N64 controller, bottle of mountain dew, and a fedora in your kids hand.

>>2666619
Interesting times are coming as I see. My mother enjoyed SM:W, Tetris and Mario Paint, and for some reason it was good to have her around, share the feeling of failing repeatedly on the fucking lava levels.
Same goes for my brother. There is an unusual huge age gap between us. He is in the age when he has all the time to play, and I can barely squeeze in some hours in the weekly routine. Which means that I suck ass. But even if he loses that CS:GO or HoTS match because of me, and basically he rushes trough Battle Block Theatre while drags me along with him, he still likes to play with me and looks forward to the weekends when I can visit him. I kinda made him like retro games also. Super Metroid has become his favourite, but now he's started Castlevania on the NES. This is basically thanks to what >>2666236 said. He just saw the old boxes on the shelf, tried out some, saw me playing with an emulator.
So to answer your question: yes. As I see every kid likes to have time with their parents or relatives and share their little worlds with them.

>>2665341
6 and 7 should go: GBC, GBA, N64

3D should come after 2D, regardless of the real chronicity. The advancement technology only represents console size at that point, which isn't really relevant.

>>2665248
I think this is the best argument

>>2667897
>NES
>Outlaw Star shirt
Decent point, but this comic really sucks in general. This is the same person who tried to illustrate the "anti-gamer girl" sentiment by misunderstanding the "FFIII is actually FFVI" factoid and basing an entire comic around it.

>>2667903
Link to artist comics please!

>>2665248
Nostalgia and childhood memories. Simple as that. Even after several years, LoZ: OoT is the best game ever made.

>>2668024
Dorkly, I suppose.

>>2668070
thanks!

>>2668036
>Nostalgia and childhood memories
See >>2667214

I play them because the games look fun and some of genre's are dead on modern consoles. Like the tomb raider/prince of persia style games.