{"id":14525,"date":"2003-10-17T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-17T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/17\/kids-these-days\/"},"modified":"2003-10-17T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-17T14:12:00","slug":"kids-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/17\/kids-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids These Days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Electronic Gaming Monthly<\/i> has an interesting article, guaranteed to make most of us feel old:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your average gamer these days is in his late 20s\u2014young enough to still find new ways to destroy brain cells, old enough to worry about bills and 401ks, and wise enough to reminisce about the good ol&rsquo; days of videogames. But was the age of Pong, Atari, Mattel handheld football, and Donkey Kong really all that great, or are we just blinded by fuzzy, warm nostalgia?<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the question we asked\u2014and answered\u2014back in the November issue of EGM, in which we rounded up nine children of the PlayStation generation\u2014ages 9 to 12\u2014and forced them to play a variety of titles from the late&#8217;70s to the mid-&lsquo;80s. Now read what the little scamps had to say, plus check their comments on a bonus game\u2014Super Mario Bros.\u2014that got cut from the EGM article. If you grew up with these classics, prepare to feel very old. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmmag.com\/article2\/0,4364,1338730,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the article<\/a> and see how young &#8216;uns feel about such classics as <i>Pong<\/i>, <i>Donkey Kong<\/i>, <i>Tetris<\/i>, and more. Sigh&hellip;  As the great Jedi Master Yoda said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/sounds\/yoda_lookold.wav\" title=\"Yoda sound file\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;Look I so old to young eyes?&quot;\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/icons\/sound.gif\" alt=\"Yoda sound file\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106639995891434016?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Gaming Monthly has an interesting article, guaranteed to make most of us feel old: Your average gamer these days is in his late 20s\u2014young enough to still find new ways to destroy brain cells, old enough to worry about bills and 401ks, and wise enough to reminisce about the good ol&rsquo; days of videogames. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/17\/kids-these-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids These Days&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}