What is with kids these days. I’ll be honest too, I’m talking about my own kids and the kids of my friends. They’re just not willing to work for something anymore are they? I mean they don’t even play hard either. What’s the deal?
When I was a kid I spent hours upon hours trying to get past a single bad guy or some weird level on Nintendo Mario Brothers or some other game. I remember my brothers and I playing Asteroids on the Atari 2600 for 9 hours straight to set things.
Both my kids got Nintendo DSi’s for Christmas and I swear I spent most of the day Christmas being asked to get the kids past some step or stage on their new game. Finally I’d had enough!
I told them both I was no longer helping them "play" their games. Part of the fun of a game is conquering the game itself. Spending that time working on something that’s difficult and not easy to come by. That’s what video games are all about right?