Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga...
by fit2rule on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:02AM
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But .. why would you give your kid a machine they can't do anything with but consume content? Wouldn't something like a Kano be a better gift for a kid these days? The XBox generation have very little clue about computers, alas ..
Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga...
by shiven on Monday December 08, 2014 @06:21AM
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The Kano might be more like getting a set of Lego bricks, back in the day, instead of the (S)NES. Your parent's peers might have said the exact same thing about 'consuming content' reagrding the Nintendo!
Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga...
by freshyill on Monday December 08, 2014 @12:28PM
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That Kano thing looks pretty neat, but he wants an Xbox and so do I. He's got a computer that's pretty much just a Minecraft machine.
He's shown some interest in wanting to make games someday, so he's getting this too: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Programming-Kids-Interactive-Prog...
If it sticks, then maybe we can actually invest in some hardware.
http://elblancosretroworld.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-magnavox...
I've got a similar Christmas Story-esque story about getting ghe SNES… my dad said "there's no more Nintendos coming into this house!" Turns out that meant they had already bought it. And yes, I've already put the same exact thing into motion with my kid and the Xbox One.