i made a similar thread yesterday, but if someone gave you 3000 dollars to teach a 5 year old from subsaharan africa or victorian england who has never seen electronics before how to play video games, what would be your game of choice?you can't outright tell them stuff like "press space to jump", they have to figure it out in their own.what game is so straightforward someone with zero vidya experience can pick it up and learn the game mechanics within minutes?
tetris
pong
>>724292501super deepthroat
>>724292501fun fact: the file size of that image is bigger than the game itself.
>>724292575was going to say this
>>724292501Super mario probablyOr pacmanMost nes or maybe atari games are good candidates because of the controller obviously
https://youtu.be/1IFjuqLr_wU
>>724292501Cookie Clicker
>>724292501Dwarf Fortress
would botw be a good candidate?
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>>724292501probably a classic shmup. shmups are the original genre that the world learned to play video games with, and it represents all the most basic elements of gameplay with no unrelated bloat like story or cinematography. move, shoot, don't get shot.
>>724292679no the image is 1kb and the game was 32kbs
Bishibashi
>>724294294Botw and totk don't move the camera unless you do it yourself, they would struggle for a long time figuring how to move in a 3D space, anything 2D without a right joystick would be better
>>724292575I don't think Tetris would be good. If we want to use a language barrier as an example it has to be easy to understand visually. The kid might think stacking the blocks to the top is how you win the game, it needs to be pretty obvious that you lose. Well I guess this kind of depends on the version of the game you're playing and the visual feedback it gives. I think it'd be the same thing for pacman, I wonder if the kid would think running into ghosts is his you win. Mario might be a better example purely because there's a humanoid character and him appearing to shout out and fall off the screen might indicate more easily that you lost and aren't supposed to do that. You have to also remember that this kid doesn't have knowledge of existing video game tropes, he doesn't know what a "game over" jingle sounds like since he doesn't know what a video game even is.I think that necessitates a human character for the game you use because the loss condition has to be just that obvious
>>724292501Golden Axe.Beat em ups are as trivially simple as a game can get. You go right, you beat the everloving shit out everything that moves. As soon as you can press buttons, you can figure out what you need to do.It'll be awhile till they get good at it, but they'll get it.
>>724292501Sonic the Hedgehog 2
>>724292501>you can't outright tell them stuff like "press space to jump", they have to figure it out in their own.What the fuck do you even mean by "teach them" then?
>>724292501Super Mario Bros is actually a great pick for this, it's simple enough to pick up for anyone and the controller is easy enough to handle for a person that's never played video games before. On a mouse and keyboard there's a lot of confusion, on a modern controller there's quite a number of buttons and people are always looking down at the analog sticks but this NES controller is great. It really won't take anyone long at all to figure out how to jump over the first Goomba.
>>724292679>>724296771
>>724303749well you have to tell them how to turn the game on and off
>>724304847did you know nikola tesla is SERBIAN? SERBIAN EXCELLENCE #KosovoIsSerbia
>>724292501The Witness? For all the memeing it gets, it gives you WSAD and LMB indicator as a tutorial in first puzzle and leaves you to ponderstand thingkenvision the ramifications
>>724292501Apparently Mario is not intuitivehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vgTofEyWm4
>>724309972Yeah, the fact that you're supposed to hold the run button all the time and acknowledge the momentum will filter many.
>>724309972is she retarded?
>>724311450Yes.She finished both Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion and STILL doesn't understand that one-way blocks only go one way.She never aims her grappling hook and gets mad that it doesn't grab.She kept using Super Bombs when she had X-Ray.She fucking STRUGGLED with infinite jumps.
Pong
>>724292889>look at thumbnail>full ass controller for an nes gameNot even gonna bother, if this dude was confused then he had every right to be
>>724292501space invaders seems like a good candidate, it's pretty easy to learn that pressing a button shoots a thing that makes other things disappear. The other things are descending at you and since that's all you can do, i think anyone would catch on quickly
>>724292501>thread full of dumb ass niggers who suggest video games involving controllers of some kind>instead of the zillion times more intuitive touch screen ipad toddler shit:I
>>724318959I'd go with some sort of touch screen whack-a-mole type of game.Considering even animals like cats can intuitively 'play' those.
