Video game foty

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Great find! This is awesome. I've actually thought about doing the exact same thing this father did with my kids.

At the very least I want to expose them to some key games / series from the past so they might appreciate how far games have come. In the same way I complain that my parents sometimes forced me to watch educational programming on PBS that I had no interest in or that was over my head, my kids may complain that I forced them to play through the original Super Mario Brothers.

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For one thing those games are just simpler for a small kid to understand.

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Very true. If I hand my 5 year old son an Xbox or PS4 controller he just gets lost and distracted, even if I tell him he only needs to use one button and one of the sticks when playing old emulated games. It has 2 analog sticks, 1 digital pad and 11 buttons. He can't help but push those to see what they do, which is nothing, and then he forgets which ones I told him to use in the first place.

Compare that to the games I grew up with which had a digital joystick and one button and it's pretty crazy how complex games have gotten. I'm thinking of buying something like this or this to ease him and my daughter in.