Rhomaios Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I forgot how horrible the screens were. Even the original GBA was horrid. Thank goodness for my GB Boy backlit clone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Kids react to . . . washing dishes themselves by hand without a dishwasher or an illegal maid who makes less than minimum wage. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Kids react to . . . washing dishes themselves by hand without a dishwasher or an illegal maid who makes less than minimum wage. They can just come over to my house. Very few apartments in NYC have a dishwasher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I can't wait for the Kids React video where they get all aghast at Random Terrains web page. I mean, what's the use of reading about controlled randomness when you can just scramble your brain with 7g cellphone emissions?!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 God I feel old. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 God I feel old. A few days ago a classmate wandered into my workplace. At that point I realized I was old enough to have high school acquaintances with receding hairlines. I quickly loaded up all the dub-step and mindless pop music I could until youth set back in! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 A few days ago a classmate wandered into my workplace. At that point I realized I was old enough to have high school acquaintances with receding hairlines. I quickly loaded up all the dub-step and mindless pop music I could until youth set back in! That sounds like a lot of work. For me, I just plucked the gray beard hairs. Voila! I'm young again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 That sounds like a lot of work. For me, I just plucked the gray beard hairs. Voila! I'm young again! I do that too. The redness and resulting acne definitely sets me back at least 3 decades! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 . .. and mindless pop music I could until youth set back in! This might help: www.randomterrain.com/rt-bouncy-music.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algus Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Oh jeez. These kids. I need to play some Game Boy tonight. I got a nice fatty clear GB off of AA a few months ago and it hasn't been used nearly enough. You know this screen seemed genius compared to what else we had at the time, aka Tiger Electronic games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Charlie Cat Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 They can just come over to my house. Very few apartments in NYC have a dishwasher. I guess I'm one of the few! Anthony... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 My favorite quote. "I kinda feel bad for people in the past." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manoau2002 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I played Super Mario Land again yesterday for the first time in a couple years. It's still an awesome game all these years later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonaUSA Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I saw this when Joystiq posted the video. I felt less disgusted by the kids comments (to be fair we all teased our parents technology when we were young) and more disturbed by how many of these kids had iPads and I phones. Seriously some of these kids aren't even ten and they have devices that make a 3do look cheap. I grew up in an upper middle class family and my parents hardly ever bought me much of anything. Because it was expensive! I remember coming home from toys r us with a new copy of super Mario brothers 3. I felt like king for a day. When you got a game it was a special occasion. Systems, if you were lucky, were only Christmas presents. I donno. Kids today just feel more entitled. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I have a Brick and a GB Pocket but prefer the latter because of its superior screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberpunk Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 those kids can suck it. i had a blast with my pea soup screen (and my Light Boy at times) playing hits like Atomic Punk, Snow Bros Jr, Kirby's Dream Land, and the Mega Man series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland p Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I can't blame them The kid in the orange shirt seems to appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Give them a game gear or Turbo Express and watch them fumble around with it wondering why there's no sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the comment about it being state-of-the-art at the time... figured the Lynx fans would flip when I watched this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the comment about it being state-of-the-art at the time... figured the Lynx fans would flip when I watched this. Meh, you can't expect the kids to actually know the history behind handhelds, much less that a culturally important piece like the Game Boy was technologically inferior to its competitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Loguidice Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I saw this when Joystiq posted the video. I felt less disgusted by the kids comments (to be fair we all teased our parents technology when we were young) and more disturbed by how many of these kids had iPads and I phones. Seriously some of these kids aren't even ten and they have devices that make a 3do look cheap. I grew up in an upper middle class family and my parents hardly ever bought me much of anything. Because it was expensive! I remember coming home from toys r us with a new copy of super Mario brothers 3. I felt like king for a day. When you got a game it was a special occasion. Systems, if you were lucky, were only Christmas presents. I donno. Kids today just feel more entitled. I just chalk it up to different times. I had a similar experience growing up (though I did have a console and computer from pretty much fifth grade on), but my daughters, ages 9 and 7 (and a third on the way), have never had a want for electronics. My youngest presently has an iPad 2, DSi, Windows Ultrabook, and access to all of my stuff (which is more or less endless). My oldest presently has a 3DS, DSi, Asus Android tablet, Windows gaming laptop, and also access to all of my stuff. Most of that stuff was simply hand-me-downs when I or my wife moved on to something else. I suspect if you transport my childhood to the modern era, while it likely wouldn't have been quite as robust (after all, this is one of my passions), I bet I would have still ended up with several modern devices. I think that's just the way things are today unless you're really struggling financially or have some bizarre bias against kids having their own electronics. Generally speaking, today electronics are far more pervasive and generally affordable because of the general abundance and competition. When we grew up (at least when I did, in the 80s (I was born 1972), it was still early times, with a lot of people simply not grasping the concept. Lots of time has passed. I suspect my kids' kids will have even more, simply because again, there will be more of it at a lower price, and it will be even more tightly integrated into day-to-day activites, i.e., something you can't be without. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 My kid loves Pong (I have a radio shack model) and my Atari 2600 although she'll only ask to play once in a while. She understands thats it old but just loves the controls lol. She currently uses an iPad and 3DS (and computer at times) for gaming. iPad is #1 though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertJets Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I am kinda getting tired of the kids react to old stuff bit. What makes it worse is that they all seem like wannabe child stars. That said I think I am maybe expecting too much of a 9 year old to see and understand technology that predates them by a decade or two for what it is. Or to even make the link that their current devices like a DS is a direct descendant of the original Game Boy. But what struck me as even more odd is that they didn't really get sucked into Tetris. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I agree; kids having $800 electronic devices of their own to drop in the sand and man-handle with their kool-aid fingers just seems wrong to me. How does a kid learn to appreciate things and appreciate the value of a dollar if they always have everything, up to and including the same electronic gizmos mom and dad are using? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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