he's a gamer!! Well, he is limited to only 10 minutes but my son loves to play games whether it be Thomas the Tank Engine on the iPhone or the 360. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqEWHE4DuSw
Very cute, Yakumo Mine takes his GBA SP to where ever he goes. Though he doesn't know a lot of how to play the games yet (he has only one game atm, hoshi no kirby). But he likes to control kirby around and lissen to the BGMs. He's just 20 month young.
He's about as good at Hydro Thunder as I am too. But yous raising that kid right. Start em Early start em on the good stuff
I've often contemplated not letting my child (when I have one) play any current gen system until they have mastered several classics so they can appreciate gaming and not turn into a "omg Modern Warfare 7" fool. =P
Oh, he likes his classics as well. One of his fav's is outrun on my old phone. He loves that game although he spends more time crashing than anything else :lol:
Teach him as much sports as possible... hard enough being half as is. I should know, I'm half myself... hate to say it but it's not going to be easy for him in school. Sports is sort of a hack for the social ladder I wish my father had taught me.
My first experience with gaming I wasn't much older than 1 I don't think. Sonic3 Locked on with Knuckles and its one of my favourite games to this day.
In japan being half is actually quite a good thing. Every half kid I've met has many fans in school. As for sport, I'm one of those who hate it. I love playing sport for fun but the ones who treat it as a matter of life or death spoil it for me :nod: my son does play football in the park with me though. Got to teach him his national sport at least. (soccer that is)
Thats my first experience. Theres pictures of It i think. The earliest memory i have of it is age 3 beating it.
OK, that sounds fair now My dad told me, that we had a pong like game in our house on which I had played when I was approx. 2. I have absolutely no memories about that. My first memories are like those from the cocktail tables, which were everywhere in the restaurants etc. playing pac man and other late 70s / early 80s stuff. My first own game device was the Green House G&W when I was seven.
Hehe, My wife is already warning me that our kids (when we have them) are not allowed to play games when they are young. Just going to see how well that works out. In the past though. I use to play games with my nephews when they were growing up. They loved playing my N64 (Mario64, Zelda & Mario kart). When I got a DC it was all Crazy Taxi & Sonic Advance. =)
Lol, I started my son off at about 3, now at 5 he's mad on games. I gave him a bunch of new ps1 games the other day and he was over the moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxKTg9v7Els
My neice has her own iTouch. She has a ton of kid games on there and plays them well, as I've seen her play them. She is almost 3 years old and she can already put puzzles together, some basic reading, and knows some of her alphabets. It's pretty cool because a lot of us cannot remember if we were like this at that age.
Right now while he is impressionable and unbiased you should be starting him on older systems. Too many kids these day don't even bother trying old stuff because the graphics suck or some other junk. Teach him right way now or he'll break your heart later when he doesn't want to play "That crappy Saturn".
I started my oldest son on the classics (metroid,mario etc etc)...he's 10 now and regularly plays my snes and dreamcast over my 360 and ps3....except when his friends ask him to go online for mw2 lol....the other 2 boys and my little girl arnt game Interested at all yet.
I don't mind if kids play games from any age on. As long the games are helpful rather than hurtful, they only bring advantages in terms of the brain development (skill, agility/reaction, memorizing, learing, reading etc.). Sure the daily play time has to be monitored by the parents.
We had some Magnavox thing when I was very very young, but I only got to play it a couple times (it was way high in the closet in the basement). My father bought an NES for my brother and I when I was in early elementary school. With the exception of Super C and Spy VS Spy (and Mario of course), I don't think I really had the motor skills or comprehension ability to play most games. I often wonder how things would have been different if I'd had that physical/mental activity introduced at an earlier age. If I had kids, I'd be torn over making them experience gaming generations chronologically so they understand the progression, or all at once so that everything is equal...
