Talkin' 'bout my generation
First I would like to comment on my chosen title, that of a well known classic rock song. I know you and I all love classic rock, but when a song title includes two consecutive words that require an apostrophe to replace missing letters, and the apostrophes are actually adjacent to each other, well, it requires some notice.
Anyways. I noticed something recently that I felt was interesting, and it is that what we are increasingly becoming is the age of video games. They are still not as prominent as movies or music, but they are gaining in wide-spreadedness, and of course if Nintendo has anything to do with it, they will be in pretty much every household.
The problem is, with the older generations, it's impossible to connect in almost any way. While they might once have snuck into a rated-R movie and gotten scolded, they won't think twice about giving kids any old game that may just as well have squishy intestines and cursey curses everywhere. And the real thing is, they just don't seem to understand that games are as much a media as anything else these days.
When I talk to my parents or other people who are older, I can mention movies or music and they will at the least know some artists and have some favorite songs or actors or directors they like, and so on. But very few of them ever seem to know any game companies and if I was to mention Hideo Kojima or Konami or Shigeru Miyamoto, or any of a number of names related to games, it's pretty much nothing. While these things are commonplace to many (well, OK, maybe not Miyamoto, but still) it is impossible to connect with people who have never heard of them, and to a generation who basically is extremely familiar with all these different names, it practically builds the generation gap of this decade. I have only recently got my parents into the Nintendo DS with the Brain Age game, but it's still difficult to get them into it because it often doesn't seem like the kind of media they are used to.
I dunno where I was going with this, but the point I guess is that I like video games and my parents don't understand me.
Anyways. I noticed something recently that I felt was interesting, and it is that what we are increasingly becoming is the age of video games. They are still not as prominent as movies or music, but they are gaining in wide-spreadedness, and of course if Nintendo has anything to do with it, they will be in pretty much every household.
The problem is, with the older generations, it's impossible to connect in almost any way. While they might once have snuck into a rated-R movie and gotten scolded, they won't think twice about giving kids any old game that may just as well have squishy intestines and cursey curses everywhere. And the real thing is, they just don't seem to understand that games are as much a media as anything else these days.
When I talk to my parents or other people who are older, I can mention movies or music and they will at the least know some artists and have some favorite songs or actors or directors they like, and so on. But very few of them ever seem to know any game companies and if I was to mention Hideo Kojima or Konami or Shigeru Miyamoto, or any of a number of names related to games, it's pretty much nothing. While these things are commonplace to many (well, OK, maybe not Miyamoto, but still) it is impossible to connect with people who have never heard of them, and to a generation who basically is extremely familiar with all these different names, it practically builds the generation gap of this decade. I have only recently got my parents into the Nintendo DS with the Brain Age game, but it's still difficult to get them into it because it often doesn't seem like the kind of media they are used to.
I dunno where I was going with this, but the point I guess is that I like video games and my parents don't understand me.