Gaming Got a switch

[grossaffe]

He has to be at minimum 35, if he still thinks the N64 is the greatest thing ever. Either a baby boomer or shortly after. I would've suspect that he had a happier life during the N64 era when things were great but after the dotcom crash and today's... unbalanced conditions, his personal life is no where as enjoyable as it used to be, and he has associated those happy times with the games that were around and these unhappy times with the games that are out now.

Don't think 35 is a minimum to love the N64. I grew up loving the SNES and I haven't even hit the bit three-oh yet.

 

[rileysrjay]

He has to be at minimum 35, if he still thinks the N64 is the greatest thing ever. Either a baby boomer or shortly after. I would've suspect that he had a happier life during the N64 era when things were great but after the dotcom crash and today's... unbalanced conditions, his personal life is no where as enjoyable as it used to be, and he has associated those happy times with the games that were around and these unhappy times with the games that are out now.

Should I summon him and ask him his age? I'm too afraid to...

 

[Futurdreamz]

Don't think 35 is a minimum to love the N64. I grew up loving the SNES and I haven't even hit the bit three-oh yet.

But how do you like the consoles that came after?

 

[Risingdawn]

I'd agree with about mid 30's, spent far too long in a bedroom playing second hand video games to bother getting a decent education.

Should I summon him and ask him his age? I'm too afraid to...

Good God no don't do it.

I'm sure he will come out with the old troll bullshit how he's amazingly successful in life, owns his own buisness and can afford to sit on Switch forums trolling day after day.

Sad thing is he claims he's a parent too, if it's not bad enough a fully grown man hasn't stopped throwing toddler temper tantrums and trying to ruin everyone else's fun but this specimen is actually raising a whole new generation of pricks.

 

[grossaffe]

But how do you like the consoles that came after?

I have a pretty positive outlook on Nintendo's consoles since then.

 

[Kioku]

Oh goody. More stuff for mods to clean up. Unfortunately half of it is true. Hm. This thread needs locked I guess.

 

[Risingdawn]

Oh goody. More stuff for mods to clean up. Unfortunately half of it is true. Hm. This thread needs locked I guess.

Yup yet again Retrotroll killed a thread by getting on everyone's tits.
I wonder these days if all the mods are on summer holidays, or whether it's just because they don't own Switches they couldn't give a shit about their community...

 

[Futurdreamz]

I have a pretty positive outlook on Nintendo's consoles since then.

Exactly, you've adapted to the new systems as time goes on. I don't have demographic charts on hand so I can't tell you the exact age groups, but generally it goes like this: People born in the 2000's mostly grew up with the internet and it's been a prevalent part of their life. People born in the 90's (like me) were growing up just when the internet was kicking into high gear and are pretty tech savvy. The 80's grew up with the first home computers and would've gotten used to them fairly quickly. The 70's grew up without computers, but quickly grasped the utility at work and learned how to use them as they became common. Those born in the 60's are generally at the cutoff; they never grew up with computers, and were well into their careers when technology became commonplace.

Assuming that can scale to video games, retroboy would have to be young enough that the n64 was part of his childhood, but old enough that newer console had little impact on him. The Gamecube is a odd duck due to it's relative rareness, but I'm guessing he is between 30-40, minimum based on him being 12 at the end of the N64's life, maximum based on him being 18 (and starting college) at the beginning of the N64's life