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My mom bought me a NES when I was two years old. I have no idea what kind of ability I had, or if I even knew that the controller was related to the TV at all, but she said that I would spend hours playing Mario.
I work in a game store and often get asked what games are suitable for 3 to 5 year olds..... There is almost nothing.
Please, give these kids a chance at life before passing them through the flames of the video game industy. Won't somebody think of the children?
Please, give these kids a chance at life before passing them through the flames of the video game industy. Won't somebody think of the children?
Where did the average gamer age statistic come from? 33 seems a little high to me. I'd love to see who was polled for that and what questions were asked.
I think it's great. Imagine what videogames can do for a child's cognitive abilities. Scientists tell us that a child's brain is more plastic than an adult's, and that the earlier a child learns an activity the quicker his brain is to wire new, more efficient pathways for it. That's why kids can learn languages so easily until five or six.
Now imagine a generation weened on Halo: tomorrow's supersoldiers with awe-inducing spatial-navigation skills and triggerfingers faster than the beat of a hummingbird's wings!
Now imagine a generation weened on Halo: tomorrow's supersoldiers with awe-inducing spatial-navigation skills and triggerfingers faster than the beat of a hummingbird's wings!
I have mixed feelings on this. While video games have a lot of cognitive benefits for developing children, I fear this will breed yet another generation of lazy and fat children, deprived of sunlight and with a distaste for any remotely strenuous physical activity.
I'm a gamer, and though I don't play games as much as I used to due to real life stuff, I still feel strongly about the positives that come from playing video games. However, I also hope that parents, especially gamer parents, know that video games should only be small part of the child's developmental cycle. Balance out video gaming with, say, taking him or her to the park or the playground.
Each generation is fatter and lazier than the last. Increases in technology have helped to foster that statistic. We need to take more care when introducing kids to video games. Let them know that soccer or football is also a fun game to play! :)
I'm a gamer, and though I don't play games as much as I used to due to real life stuff, I still feel strongly about the positives that come from playing video games. However, I also hope that parents, especially gamer parents, know that video games should only be small part of the child's developmental cycle. Balance out video gaming with, say, taking him or her to the park or the playground.
Each generation is fatter and lazier than the last. Increases in technology have helped to foster that statistic. We need to take more care when introducing kids to video games. Let them know that soccer or football is also a fun game to play! :)
MechaMonkey:
http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php
http://www.theesa.com/facts/gamer_data.php
Thats the best I can do for you
http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php
http://www.theesa.com/facts/gamer_data.php
Thats the best I can do for you
Please note that those 'facts' appear to be a little out of date but are fairly consistent with other such findings I recall reading about.
As a father I agree with deiga. My daughter really likes watching and interacting with the Nintendo Wii games but her joy is running around outside in the backyard being chased by her mom and I. Then again there's this...
This is nothing I was four years old when I started. Tetris used to keep me quiet and I was told, in some way at the time, to stfuajpg. Yawn.
The average age is 6.7?
I was 3 when my brother got his NES.
And for the record, the 1st game I played on it was the Rare masterpiece RC Pro-Am.
I was 3 when my brother got his NES.
And for the record, the 1st game I played on it was the Rare masterpiece RC Pro-Am.
RC Pro Am was teh shizzle.
First game eva was COMBAT on the 2600 when I was 7-8 or so. Tank game pwnd biplanes.
My first computer game was Bard's Tale on the Commodore 64 and I was about 10-11. (Actually I think it was Zork text game, and another text game called "Rats")
I'll be 33 later this year.
First game eva was COMBAT on the 2600 when I was 7-8 or so. Tank game pwnd biplanes.
My first computer game was Bard's Tale on the Commodore 64 and I was about 10-11. (Actually I think it was Zork text game, and another text game called "Rats")
I'll be 33 later this year.
When I was 12 I wrote a few thousand lines of code in BASIC to create an extremely retarded text game.
It was my own version of "Farmers Daughter" (I saw the same name and premise for many text games soon after)
I'll give you one guess what it was about.
It was my own version of "Farmers Daughter" (I saw the same name and premise for many text games soon after)
I'll give you one guess what it was about.
Cheers trotskii, much obliged.
Those statistics though are most likely based on a random sampling, of which most questionnaires were probably answered by the head of the household, predominantly middle-aged men.
Show me a statistic, and I'll show you information skewed and interpreted specifically to present a particular point of view.
Those statistics though are most likely based on a random sampling, of which most questionnaires were probably answered by the head of the household, predominantly middle-aged men.
Show me a statistic, and I'll show you information skewed and interpreted specifically to present a particular point of view.
I don't even remember when I started playing games. I just kind of remember always having them in the house and playing them. The first game that I actually remember playing is Super Mario World though, but my parents tell me how I used to watch them play Super Mario Bros. all the time when I was a baby and would mash on an unplugged controller while looking at the screen.
Delga is right, it's about balance. My son will be gaming next to me in a few years, but not all the time. The outside world has better graphics and physics than any game. Still haven't figured out where I can buy a gravity gun though.
I too started young,I remember playing super mario 3 on the NES, and remembering crying because I couldn't beat battletoads, and i still cant. And I still cry -Inside-
Baby gamers...playing baby games?
That gamertag kicks ass...does anybody actually have that gamertag?
That gamertag kicks ass...does anybody actually have that gamertag?
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