A Mature Appreciation for Games...

I started playing games when I was 4. Shooting gallery, I believe it was. My dad was a pretty tech savvy guy for the early eighties, so he had shipped many game systems in favor of the "awesome" power of the Atari. In elementary school, our chidhood conversations concerning Nintendo usually went something like:

KID ONE: Nintendo sure is rad, huh?

KID TWO: Oh yeah, it is rad. What do you think Kid Three?

KID THREE: I also like the radness of Nintendo.

ALL: RAD!!!

Of course, I am paraphrasing.

Now I am 28, and at work sometimes I will try to strike up a conversation centered around my still favorite pastime. But now I have 24-odd years of video game experience, so my knowledge and variety of video topics is much broader. Conversations usually go more like this:

ME: I am so excited about GTA IV that I bought stock in Take-Two.

COWORKER: My kids play the Halo, is whatever you're talking about like that?

ME: Nevermind.

Thoughts on getting a more mature appreciation for videogames?

I hate the word rad more than I hate fanboys. And I'm a man who hates his fanboys :xKook18

that is so RAD. :P

[QUOTE="Kook18"]I hate the word rad more than I hate fanboys. And I'm a man who hates his fanboys :xchathuranga

that is so RAD. :P

On a serious note, I just beat Uncharted. Its amazing how far games haave come in the last 16 years I've been playing. I remember starting out with sonic. My roomates were watching me play Uncharted and everytime a scene came up, I could here one of them whisper 'this is like a friggin movie'. Good times.

I hate the word rad more than I hate fanboys. And I'm a man who hates his fanboys :xKook18

See, that to me is like saying, "I will grow out of reading novels, from here on out, straight nonfiction".

[QUOTE="Kook18"]I hate the word rad more than I hate fanboys. And I'm a man who hates his fanboys :xDrSquishy

See, that to me is like saying, "I will grow out of reading novels, from here on out, straight nonfiction".

Well my conversation regarding gameing when I was oyung went like this:

Me: Snes is ALOT cooler then the genesis because it has power rangers:zero battle racer

Sega fanboy: No SNES is stupid because it dosent get cool X-men gmes like the genesis

Me: But we have The war of the gems ?

Sega Fanboy: Yeah but that sucks because its on the SNES

Me: YOUR STUPID!!!!

and so on and so fourth....As you can see back in the day when gameing was ALOT simpler the arguments were simpler now with these new consoles the arguments are polluted with which online service is better and how much internal RAM the 360 & PS3 has.

I started playing games with a brief time the Atari 2600 that my dad had bought...I then saw the NES at an Uncle's place and was mesmerized ! Dad bought me that too the next year....I will always cherish the fact that my dad encourged me playing games :)

I am 23 now, not quite 'old' but still have loads of memories...When i played Prince of Persia (the original DOS version) I was like " Wow, this is spectacular"...i also felt that way with NFS or Wolf 3D, Doom.

I now see games have evolved so much not only in terms of graphics, but the depth and artistic expression that they showcase. It really is a great feeling and I always wonder how the little kids of today will feel when they are in their late 20s....Will they have the same feeling of staggering evolution that we have ?

Oh and I will never grow out of playing games.

[QUOTE="DrSquishy"]

[QUOTE="Kook18"]I hate the word rad more than I hate fanboys. And I'm a man who hates his fanboys :xTiefster

See, that to me is like saying, "I will grow out of reading novels, from here on out, straight nonfiction".

Ah...well, then.

I got the Nintendo Action Set when I was three. This year is my 20th year of gaming!

NES / SNES / N64 / Xbox (Broke) / PS2 / 360 (Sold it) / DS / Wii

I feel after all these years of gaming the Wii and DS have brought it together really well, past and present. Most of my old systems have gone to console heaven so I like the fact I can download most of my favorites from the Virtual Console. With games like Professor Layton, Wii Sports, Planet Puzzle League, Brain Age and Wii Fit they Nintendo are moving gaming into a different direction, a more mature direction IMO. Definitions of "mature" in the given context can vary... I also enjoy many of the great 1st and 3rd party franchises established by Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Square-Enix, etc and will never stop playing them but I feel these would not be talked about around the water cooler as much as games like Wii Fit, Wii Sports and Brain Age.

Overall I think gaming is growing up and more people are starting to enjoy games... young and old... casual, hardcore or in between. :)

I think you're just trying to strike up conversations with the wrong people. It's like asking how well I like the new My Shotgun Chemical Boy album really not everybody listens to "new" music, and few care to comment on it.

ps you better hope EA buys out T2, or be prepared to sell your T2 stock fast cause they have nothing profitable after GTA until late 09.

i don't think i'll grow out of games

i might not have as much time to play them in the future, but that won't mean i won't want to play them

i see games kindof like movies

people don't grow out of them, so why should we grow out of games?

Well not sure if i will grow out of games... I mean its one of my main interests and probably the older i grow the less time I'll have to play games but still find time... And if one day i'll be a father and my children get into gaming, that will probably revive the gamer inside me :) hehe

Games should be enjoyed no matter your age...