Gaming peaked with the Wii, LOL
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
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I had a chipped Wii during uni and so we (flatmates + me) downloaded and burned a vast ocean of Wii games.
I don't really see it as the peak of gaming. There's a few good games, like SMG 1 & 2, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than ten exclusives worth revisiting. So much shovelware and low quality ports.
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I feel this is exactly the same as boomers who raised thier kids on exclusively 70 and 80s "classic" rock.
I do have a fondness for old rock/metal from that era too and am pretty happy with it, so maybe that's a green light!
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Introducing kids to old games is great, but restricting them from experiencing their own generations culture, not so much
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You are just giving your kids more options, most don't have that choice and can only play whatever launches for phones or switch.
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I still play animal crossing new leaf. Just got the golden net the other day (my town has been going since 2013)
meh, maybe one AAA game a year is worth buying, old or indie games are way better
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Nah... it's okay. She won't be out of touch. Nintendo is going to release these games for the Switch 2 for $80.
- Mario 64?
- Ocarina of Time?
- ~~Turkish~~Turok?
- Goldeneye?
This kid is about to meet one of the gaming gods.
Kid'll be fine.
Besides, what super awesome lifestyle changing game is out right now that the kid will miss?
Edit: Ha! Yes, Turok, not Turkish!
Turkish?
One of these things is not like the other... I tried to look this up and can't find it. My best guess is an autocorrected Turok?
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As long as we all raise our kids this way, they won't be out of touch with their peers!
This will be me when I have children and I am not sorry.
I'll help them build that foundational understanding of what games were and then if they still wanna play the modern bs, they can.
I think the trick is to just let kids play what they want
as a kid I grew up with basically every generation of nintendo consoles up to the Wii U, as well as a PC (well, a mac really but whatever) and I turned out fine
i missed out on some of the big sensations of the moment, like fortnite or COD, but tbh I didn’t care, these games never interested me and they still don’t
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we are currently playing stardew valley and I don't think harvest moon would hit as well, but maybe that's an exception overall, they truly just enjoy hard simpler games like the classics are
There are people who grew up with game but are well rounded and sociable. It depends entirely on the person and the type of environment they grew up in.
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I do plan to start my sons on retro games starting when they're about 4 years old. They'll basically get an abridged experience of some of the best games from each generation.
They should be on modern games by the time they're old enough for it to matter in terms of relating to their peers. And it's not like I'd say "no" if they said their friends wanted to play a particular game with them just because it's from the "wrong" generation.
I'm also not going to force the issue if they just aren't receptive to it. Everyone has different interests.
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Good. May they learn to never preorder.