Comment on Anon disrespects their elders

echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• hushable@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I absolute despise when people dismiss some videogames as a boomer thing. Boomers did not play videogames (in general), as a matter of fact, most of them hated them.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Many did, but stopped after the atari/namco era.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      my mother (boomer) did and still does, but refuses to admit it. she absolutely loved grim fandango, the monkey island series, quest for glory, kings quest and space quest, pretty much anything sierra or lucasarts. i keep trying to get her to dip her toe into some walking simulators or something with some decent story (i bet she’d love horizon zero dawn, one of my brothers was all in on dinosaurs) but she’s just playing bejeweled now.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m sad I could never convince my mom to keep gaming beyond the arcade games of her youth and bejeweled and the like. I sincerely think she would have loved roguelites. My father never was a gamer but did try golf games, and I tried to convince him to try strategy games but never did, I still think he’d love 4xes

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m a late millennial and I grew up with N64 and GameCube. I thought my cousin’s SNES was cool and retro.

    I saw a Sega Genesis at my uncle’s house once and felt like I was rediscovering the secrets of the ancestors

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  • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Video games are all either gay or the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And here I thought I could respect you for your good prose.

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s what happens when you watch too many video games, you start disrespecting your elders. Now, back in my day, etc…

        (I hope the joke is more apparent now)

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    • bestagon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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