• pyre@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    everywhere. thinking mostly kids play videogames is some boomer-ass take. SNES was 35 years ago… do you think people who grew up playing videogames in the 90s just quit one day? about three quarters of people who play videogames today are adults, and 40% are 35+.

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      5 months ago

      How dare you not growing up like a boomer and not getting accustomed to linear television as your only source of joy, therapy and emotion avoidance? /s

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      5 months ago

      Growing up with games that had no save options and no walk-throughs, we’re the OG gamers.

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          I remember one of my dad’s co-workers asking my dad to bring me to his place so I can walk him through Dizzy as he wrote everything down.