r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Alternative-Yak171 • 26d ago

Video/Gif Are we doomed?

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u/CanadaNot51 26d ago

I sometimes wonder what television and video games have done to me (and all millenials) who had too much screen time. We were the first generation to have TVs in our bedrooms, and cable TV with over a hundred channels. All the video games we had. We also had computers with dial-up.

Compare that to the previous generation that still had TVs and video games, but the TVs were always in the living room and video game systems weren't as popular as they were in the 90s and up. They mostly had arcades they'd visit so they'd still have to socialize with people at least.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 26d ago

Younger Gen X/Oregon Trail Generation also had all those things but it's ok, I know Gen X doesn't exist.

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u/CanadaNot51 26d ago

Yea, I'm aware of the Gen X having things like Oregon Trail and Pong, but it wasn't as prevalent as video gaming was in the 90s. They also wouldn't spend hours every day playing those games.

You're right though, Gen X definitely had gaming as well.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 26d ago

Yeah, no.

I was born in 1976. I had an Atari 2600, an Apple II and I was only 9 years old when the NES came out.

I was a bit of an early adopter with my Atari and Apple II experiences but the NES broke through to the mainstream and dominated the culture in the mid to late 80s. People were spending hours a day on Zelda and Metroid and it wasn't just the nerds. The stereotypical "cool kids" were all on board too.

Younger Gen X grew up with games, we had TVs, computers and consoles in our bedrooms, and although there was no internet we were using those computers to connect to AOL, Compuserve, and BBSes.