How do I share my passion for retro games with my children so they group up loving retro games and not modern slop
>>12566792Emulators
Make them play easier games with you, like Kirby Super Star.And look into easy mode ROM hacks of harder games like Mega Man.
Remove new consoles and only place retro consoles in their vicinity. Play in front of them and let them play as well. Bonus points if you can get a modern console to only play retro games.>Nes classic, snes classic, sega genesis classic etc.Don't use switch, switch 2, ps4/ps5, xbone
>>12566792Pretend to be poor and tell your children your pc is shit and can't afford new vidya, however you do have this thing called playstationand it has a bunch of psxhorror style games.Yes, the psxhorror part is intentional, it's one of the "cool and hip" buzzwords kids use nowadays
Beat them
I'm a little bit younger, mid 20s and I'm not so sure if restricting your child from modern things is such a good idea. My parents basically did the same thing to me growing up, they wouldn't let me get a smart phone when those started proliferating, they wouldn't let me use Myspace or Facebook, the newest console I had was a Gamecube(until literally 2015), all the movies I had were from the 80s and eventually they got rid of cable in favor of being an early adopter of Netflix streaming which if any of you guys had Netflix streaming back when it first came out you'll know all it had was pretty old shit. This turned me into a complete social outcast in my school days, I couldn't relate to literally anybody. I almost made a few friends here and there but they faded away because I couldn't talk to them online or they wouldn't want to come over because I didn't have anything to do that would interest them. And now I'm a bitter young adult that hates everything around me because my tastes were shaped by the products of yesteryear. I don't hate that completely, I enjoy enjoying these things from before my time, but I do constantly wonder how things could have been if I had the things everyone else did.
>>12566803>Spares him from being a faggot>questions whether he wanted to be part of the faggots>he's an adult now and has free pass to be faggotgo ahead and pay for micro transactions and DLC and all that other bs anon, go and embrace the cancer if that's what you want so badly. ungrateful little shit
>>12566803Your parents saved you from being a normalfaggot mc'normie so that's pretty based of them
>>12566804I'm not really talking about video games, it's my whole life really. I didn't say I want those things, I just ponder if my life may have been better or worse if things had been different.
>>12566792>frogposter>producing children
>>12566803>>12566804>>12566805>>12566807The answer is to raise them on retro video games but also make them play a team sport, so they grow up to be a football chad with patrician taste in video games.
>>12566792If they have a good time playing retro games with you, they will have nostalgia later in life
>>12566801D-dad...?
>>12566794you are trans you will never have children>>12566792Play co-op games with them, the strongest memories of games they'll have is with other people
>>12566792parents who want their children to be like them instead of a unique individual are the worst kind of parents.my father never touched a game beside a few arcades and pong when is brother got it yet he bought me consoles and games because i was into that,sure he showed me the things he was interested in but we have vastly different passions and thats ok.
>>12566792Imagine being the son a dumbass who can't even type and thinks the frog is funny
>>12566792https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/
>>12566902>Imagine being the son a dumbass who can't even typeesl
force them
>>12566792Get them an old computer of their own with emulators preinstalled.
>>12566792Let them play fortnite and put your 200lb crt beside their tv and play FF7. They should immidietly be glued to your tv since older gamrs are better and not just nostalgia
>>12566984get the programming socks and HRT while at it
>>12566902>the son a dumbassImagine lecturing people for not being able to type while not being able to type.
1. Homeschool them2. Do not give them any access to internet or phones3. Make retro games their only form of entertainment4. Only allow them to socialize with kids with the exact same restrictions.There you have it. Hopefully you live in America and not some commie yuropoor dystopia that would restrict this.
Reverse psychology. Keep your retro games somewhere separate from their new slop. Discourage them from messing with your stuff, but don't outright ban them from it, or lock it away somewhere they can't actually get to. Tell them they wouldn't like the games for being slow, having bad graphics, being hard, or just being "old".Also limit their internet access for reasonable reasons and prohibit them from spending money on bullshit like microtransactions or in-game currencies. That's just good parenting advice in general, but if you cut down the amount of time they can play multiplayer games, they'll end up playing more singleplayer games. And either they'll like the challenge of retro games, or they'll prefer the handholding of newer games and there's really not much you can do about it.
>>12566792serious answer:provide a curated experience. Choose a selection of really good co-op or swappable 1P games that are geared toward children.emulate, and use wired controllers (Bluetooth just doesn't work). big screen, not touch screen.play with them, not against them. don't get sucked into the original hardware / X mini meme; imitation consoles provide a mostly shit experience. Example: I played Land of Illusion, Yoshi's Island and Streets of Rage 2 on a Chromebook with HDMI out to TV and two wired controllers with my 8yo son and he really enjoyed it.
>>12566792I gave away my SNES mini to my sister's kids as a gift and they love it, I rather it go to someone who is going to enjoy them more than I did and I can just play it with them whenever I go visit.
>>12566792play with them. good multiplayer arcade games are timeless.
>>12566880thisso many parents try to live vicariously through their children and it's pathetic
>>12566792I got into retro games because of AVGN. That, and also I've had a low-end computer so most games I could play were from the 3rd to the 5th gen on an emulator.
>>12566993this but swap ff7 with an action game. crash team racing unironically looks more fun than forkknife
>>12566792do not let them use an ipad and groom them at an early age and give them a nes/snes/genesis classic when they are about 4 yrs old Make those the only things the play. If they ask for something modern, tell em no because we cant afford it. But most of all spend time with your kid playing retro games, play co-op games especially and if they wanna be competitive. Play fighting games.
>>12566880cry
>>12566803>>12566807this was also me. we were dirt poor growing up and shit sucked. of course i dont think raising your kids with tablets and phones is good but i think this whole social movement of completely isolating your kids and raising them in a cult-like environment (like many are suggesting itt) is going to have some pretty ugly consequences down the line, just my 2 cents. i know that will fall on deaf ears and get me dogpiled tho so whatever
>>12568805You're completely right. But alas, so many anons are anti-social retards
>>12567782>play with them, not against them.Great advice for getting literally anyone into a game. I can't count how many times I got turned off by a game because my introduction was my experienced friends totally whooping my ass.Coop is the greatest experience you can possibly have in games. It's not even up for debate.
>>12566801I don't recommend that. My dad used to hit me, and now I have gay fantasies about him fucking me.
>>12567212Estranged parent speed run: world record boogaloo 2
>>12566792play games with themdon't force itlet them see your enthusiasm naturallymix old and new games instead of treating modern games as corruption>>12566796>Remove new consoles and only place retro consoles in their vicinity.Nope kek>>12567212No wtf lol>>12567242Actual big brain take>>12568846Kek
>>12568828being anti-social is gigachad though
>>12566792>>12566808>>12566917Why are you avatarfagging with the reddit frog?
what's the point of having kids if I can't spend time with them with shared hobbies?
>>12566792Make them play actually good games, my dad did and that lead me to playing mostly old games even into my adulthood.
>>12566792DKC series. Good music, good gameplay, family friendly. I think it's timeless.
>>12570742Yeah some retro games are dated as hell, others can probably live on forever. Retro racing games for example were obsoleted with 3d games because that genre just sits better in a pure 3d space than whatever they tried to pull before that (sprite scaling/pseudo 3d/top down/etc).
>>12566792Play games with them?
>>12570742Not DKC, it's pretty hard.
>>12566792Same way you don't let them become faggots or troons or fall for liberal claptrap; you beat the everloving shit out of them when they step out of line and make it clear to them that not only your love but indeed their being welcome in your home and at your dinner table is contingent on their behaving like proper men.
>>12566792>Fire up retro console>Play fun games with your kidsDone.
