Teenagers/Gaming Knowledge

[DinohScene]

I'm not stupid

Exceptions are always made.

 

[DarkGabbz]

Exceptions are always made.

As a example Voxel

 

[Deleted-379826]

I mean I'm 11 and grew up with XP, which I still LOOVE (have a vm)! And I can easily recognize that wallpaper and many other things you throw at me. I really do appreciate retro gaming and play a lot of classics. I even got DosBox emulator because I wanted to learn and thought it was cool also trying to learn C++. I would always be amazed by the old things and stuff my uncle would show me and teach me especially because he still has a lot! So I believe the OP could be pretty stereotypical, but there is hope (maybe?). Im also interested in Japanese. And have seen a floppy disk

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The majority of the people in my class only play shitty mobile games like Candy Crush, so I wouldn't expect them to know what Space Invaders or even goddamn Pokemon is.

*Wake me up inside*
*CAN'T EVER WAKE UP EVER*
*call my name and save me from the dark*

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Teenagers are stupid.
By the time you turn 24 orso, you'll notice it as well.

I'm 18 and I know that. But I'm also a massive degenerate hating cynic.

 

[Chary]

I don't think most teenagers really care about retro gaming unless they were introduced to it by an older sibling/parent. Why would people born in the 2000s-or-so have any knowledge of an arcade game from the late 1970s? Unless they're devout fans of gaming, then chances are, they have zero interest in something that's not the latest and greatest. Old stuff like Tetris or Pacman are still relevant, but when was the last time you saw a Space Invaders game?

Edit: To clarify, I'm 19. But I grew up with NES/SNES/Genesis games. Had I not gotten those retro systems passed down to me by my parents, I'm sure I would have just had a N64/PS1 like most other kids and would have grown up playing 3D games, not having an understanding or connection to 2D sprite based games.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Incoming pac-man 40 Anniversary in 2020!

 

[Vanth88]

I was working as an intern at my college and there was this summer camp thing for teens and we got to talking about video games (FPS to be exact). I started talking about Doom and Quake and not a single kid knew what that was. I shit you not not a single person.. no one. Of course they all knew about Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield.

Not all is lost though I have a few cousins who like the SNES (I have one out in the living room), so I think it's really got something to do with the fact that the vast majority of kids now a days dont have access to an atari or anything like that.

 

[NORBIN]

>mfw people are acting like WinXP is old & outdated

I still code on a tiny shitty ass little Acer WinXP netbook and have stuffed it with hundreds of emulators. It accomplishes pretty much anything I would want from a newer OS, although I do also have a Win7 and Win10 PC, but I barely touch them for anything besides playing higher-performance games or streaming.