Yeah the NES came out when I was five, and all my friends kids and my family’s kids are out of high school now. You can casually tell people you play video games and no one bats an eye anymore. More often they’ll ask you what you’re playing. It’s nice.
I remember when I was a teen, adults would say “aren’t you too old for video games?” They didn’t understand that even then, many games were catering to older gamers. And all the games were being created by gamers who were old enough to be out of university.
That’s why they would get mad at games like Doom, for being hyper violent. Cause according to so many people, games were only for children.
I feel like that has gotten better. I game while my daughter games next to me all the time.
I find it odd when i go to a random barber who is 19-25 or so asks me what i like. I tell them video games, but it never results into anything, because to them videogames are usually fifa or call of duty. They have never even heard of the games i play. Compared to when i was like 10, everyone seemed to play the same games.
It was more niche when you were 10 so if people were playing games they were probably playing similar games. Plus, the people you were meeting probably had a higher probability of the same interests at that age
Yeah the NES came out when I was five, and all my friends kids and my family’s kids are out of high school now. You can casually tell people you play video games and no one bats an eye anymore. More often they’ll ask you what you’re playing. It’s nice.
I remember when I was a teen, adults would say “aren’t you too old for video games?” They didn’t understand that even then, many games were catering to older gamers. And all the games were being created by gamers who were old enough to be out of university. That’s why they would get mad at games like Doom, for being hyper violent. Cause according to so many people, games were only for children.
I feel like that has gotten better. I game while my daughter games next to me all the time.
I find it odd when i go to a random barber who is 19-25 or so asks me what i like. I tell them video games, but it never results into anything, because to them videogames are usually fifa or call of duty. They have never even heard of the games i play. Compared to when i was like 10, everyone seemed to play the same games.
It was more niche when you were 10 so if people were playing games they were probably playing similar games. Plus, the people you were meeting probably had a higher probability of the same interests at that age
Yeah, it’s nice that such a big cultural shift happened around this.