Yeah, I don't see any harm in limited, controlled amounts of gaming. Much like television, really. I hate seeing a parent plonk their kid in front of it for hours on end as a babysitting device. It's the same with sports, really - like you say. It's good to do it for a bit of fun every now and then, keep fit and healthy and all that. That said, if he wants to do it more seriously in future, fair enough! I don't believe in forcing your kids into something because you did it / like it / wish you'd done it, either. Is he bilingual, then? I'd see that as a fairly major advantage, really! I don't see why having a foreign parent should be any hindrance to him, really - it never was when I was at school, and we're taught to be more tolerant nowadays. What's going to really set him back is when he gets the curly Scouser afro!
Well, my Son is now 4 and loves his games. He can still only play at the weekend and only an hour a day but boy, does he love gaming. His current favourite games are Mario (Even though he's NEVER played a Mario game?!?) 360 Kinect Adventures, iPhone Kamen Rider AR Cardass, Arcade TMNT In Time and Original and Final Fight which he either plays on my iPhone or on the 360 with me for some 2 player action. At first I wasn't sure about letting him play Final Fight but then I realized it's just the same as the Kamen Riders that Japanese kids watch. He can reach Level 3 on his own!! Here's a video of him playing Final Fight on the iPhone. He really does know how to play. http://www.segagagadomain.com/videos/finalfight.htm Yakumo
He's better than me :crying: Now hook the little guy up with a Game Gear or Nomad or something. After all, you're the SEGA guy...:cur_sonic:
The first time I played final fight was in a special location... A gift shop at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990
Yeah, get him to play games on a vintage system! It'd be so cool growing up as if you were born in 1975 and see games evolve hahah. Buy him a PC-Engine and a Super Famicom. He'll be the coolest kid in his class until they figure out what HD is Lol
You may feel old for being born in this fantastic year, but in regards of gaming this and down to 1960+ is the best year to be born. Generations like me ('89) can only try to experience thefeeling of the 90's pulse on gaming by buying old magazines and retro games, but it's not the same. But maybe having access to internet porn during my teenage years was worth the price ROLF.
I don't think I could've asked for a better time to grow up in, as far as videogames, than the 90s. To me, in the 90s games were more about coolness. They were more about trying to blow your mind. It seems like these days it's less about trying to wow you with something new and exciting, and more about just pleasing the masses with the same boring slush they've been eating for the past decade or so. I guess it's because people aren't as easily impressed by technology as they were in the 90s or prior. That's not to say that there weren't shitty games in the 90s. There were tons of them. And that's also not to say that good games aren't still coming out. They are. I just think the overall atmosphere around videogames was cooler in the 90s.
"Congratulations, you were born. So was I." ------ It's funny, the shitty 90s games are some of the most fun for me, these days.
I agree, up until about 1995 that is. With the new consoles, especially the PS1, attitudes of both developers and the general public started to drift towards "Who cares if the gameplay sucks, look at these FUCKING RADICAL 3D GRAPHICS!". That combined with the mentality that games should be DARK and EDGY and BLOODY made the next few years a terrible time for video games. Sure, there were some bright spots like Half-Life, but most of the games from that era have aged extremely badly - maybe worse than anything from any other era in gaming - even the ones that got good reviews (and back there there were some really bad games that somehow managed to get good scores, Toshinden anyone?).
Not even that, just I was talking to a firend the other day about how kids these days might not see the same world as we did because video games expose them to all these precreated landscapes and fantasy lands and leave 0 space for imagination. When I was kid, I remember playing with action figures and building my own world... Even then I was introduced to computers when I was about 7 and it sucked me right in.
You guys are all older than Kyo Kusangai (12/12/76) But Iori Yagami is your age (3/25/75) No I don't know these off hand I had to look them up
Dude, you have a Saturn logo as your avatar! You don't think there were any good Saturn games released after 1995? I could easily list a hundred great games that were made between 1995 and 2000, but I don't feel like it right now.
God Toshinden that game has aged like a heaping turd resting in pickle juice and gasoline Is it any wonder why the Revival has not seen the light of day? I tried playing Toshinden for a Retrocade and it was just calling it shit would be an insult to shit.
Lol, it's funny that already 3 members in here, all residing in Japan are the very same age. How's about GP?
Hey... back in the day Toshinden was the shit! The fact that it had transparent polygons was mind blowing... And keep in mind it was a pioneering home 3D fighter. I remember being blown away by things like Daytona and Ridge Racer, and at the time we didn't notice the pop-up and draw-in, we were impressed how far we had come in only a generation. SFC to PSX is amazing... noting like XBOX to 360 or how the PSX have progressed. That was an amazing leap for gamers at the time. It's all perspective, man.
