This is a requested post. First of all I'd like to thank those who comment on my blogs. I appreciate knowing the fact that people read my entries.
We as a group have been talking about gamers in their prime, but there's a question that I received: What are gamers like as kids? I have decided to expand on this a bit.
Gamers have usually always been gamers. Even as kids they loved to play videogames. Now people my age are probably too young to have been around the time Atari's were "cool", but we know of them. Others in my age group and myself are most likely in the Nintendo age, when the NES first debuted with games like Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. What, you remember Duck Hunt don't you? With that old school gun controller where you shoot pixellated ducks that try to fly away. I got to like the 15th level or something on that, I can't remember.
Gamer kids played those games all the time, because, unlike in the earlier times when arcades were big, you only had to pay for this once, and you could have multiple games and switch them on the fly. Consoles revolutionized gaming as we know it. Since you didn't have to go 10 blocks to the arcade, wait in a 15 minute line for you game, and the amount of time you could play was solely dependent on how many quarters you brought with you.
This conundrum was no longer true about consoles. You could play them as much as you liked, which is why we as gamers kept playing. Then consoles got better and more powerful. With better games, you could play the game multiple times and not get bored, therefore stretching out the gaming goodness for fellow gamers like us.
Gamers liked to play games as kids because there weren't so many good games out there, so we played the good ones as much as possible. Who knows what will be happening 15 years from now when it comes to the child development of a gamer. My opinion is that it's not going to change very soon.
1 comment:
I do remember when the NES came out. I didn't own one but my friend next door did and I would go over there every weekend to play with him. I remember plugging in the huge game cartridges and pushing the power button. Compared to now, with CDs it seems almost impossible to have shrunk games down to such small things. I do remember the gun for the NES that was the coolest thing to play with when it came out, but to back there weren't many games that could use it. Thanks for reminiscing and keep up the good work.
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