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Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga... by fit2rule on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:02AM (#8715571)
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 ..
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Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga... by shiven on Monday December 08, 2014 @06:21AM (#8715922)
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!
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Re:Ralph H. Baer, Inventor of First System for Home Video Ga... by freshyill on Monday December 08, 2014 @12:28PM (#8717630)
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.

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