I feel old.
What are you talking about?
There are parents out there young enough to not remember the remake of Red/Blue.
You can have your parents be younger than Diamond and Pearl before it starts making me think about the failure of social security nets.
I mean you can technically become a parent at like 11 so this really isnt all that meaningful yeah.
I am literally cutting it off at 18, hence the security net thing.
If you’re gonna go into biological limits we’re looking at the end of the 3DS era. You could technically have grandparents who weren’t born back in Red/Blue days, but we’re trying to keep things from getting gross, we’re just aiming for depressing.
You should already be thinking about failure of social security nets.
Look, I do feel some empathy for people stuck in less civilized parts of the planet, but I can’t personally care about every self-destructive, violent culture that fails to join modern society, you know?
I do support protecting their refugees, assuming they are willing to, you know, integrate into the culture.
Some people alive today have only ever seen a floppy disk as the save icon.
My boy is 14 and he’s never even seen a CRT TV. He didnt know where the words “rewind” or “hang up” came from.
That’s actually a big number. There are people that haven’t seen CDs or DVDs.
If we suggest that people 20 years old and younger today, born from 2004, doesnt know the floppy disk.
That would be 33% of the world population. Let that sink in.
You feel old!? I was too old to care about all that pokemon stuff when it came out. I don’t remember any pokemon stuff, not because I wasn’t born, but because I was already too old when that shit came out
Mostly the same. I had already been married for almost a decade when the N64 came out. I did play Pokemon Stadium and Pokemon Snap but I actually have no idea what red and blue are.
They’re the first games in the series. My mom got me Red at like 8yo, on the gameboy color. Good memories
I’m too old to have had a Gameboy as a kid, and didn’t buy one as an adult. My first Pokemon experience was the N64 I got in 1999. I was 27. I still have that and my wife’s NES from when she was younger. I have never even held a game boy in my hand.
I don’t remember Pokémon Red/Blue and am a parent… So this means I am considered young? 😀
Red, blue, and yellow were cool at launch. But I wouldn’t recommend a kid to play that unless they already played the other gameboy/GBA games and want more. Fire red and Leaf green would be the better recommendation, especially for younger first time players.
Ps, check out Volt Yellow
No chance. Graphics so scuffed bro like thats so mid was this peak aura in the ancient era?
Volt Yellow looks very promising! I’ll have to check it out some day. Otherwise I tend to recommend HeartGold/SoulSilver as an introduction to the franchise.
Completely agree with you that without nostalgia goggles RBY don’t hold up that well.
have you considered that there are people your age that were broke as kids, or non-westerners, that also don’t remember pokemon red/blue
non-westerners
Japan is western confirmed.
Have you considered the meaning of the words “young enough to”?
i’m saying that what you see as generational divide can be partially also class divide
Have you considered some kids weren’t interested in video games?
Have you considered some kids were blind?
Have you considered some kids are dead now?
Have you considered some kids weren’t allowed games?
Have you considered some kids didn’t know English or Japanese?
Have you considered some kids didn’t care for Pokemon to know anything about it?
Have you considered these things were banned in some countries?
Have you considered some kids had no hands?
Have you considered you make comments on the internet for no reason other than to devalue others?
Have you considered why you’d even do that?
Have you considered some kids weren’t in the intended market?
Have you considered some kids had different peer cultures?
Have you considered some kids had religious boundaries?
Have you considered a single word OP had said?
There are people poor enough to have never had the taste of {premium food option}
While true, the sentence fails to deliver the same feeling op tried to share with us. The comparison is therefor meaningless.
Specifically “the feeling of still considering yourself to be young while realizing the same people you once considered infantile little kids are now your fellow mature adults.”
The class war is real, brutal and should be talked about. But this was not the right place.
I’m not talking about a generational divide. I’m talking about feeling old. Me, being in my 40s. Perhaps I could’ve led with that.
They released almost 30 years ago. Adding a few more years, since you can’t properly play them with no reading skills, we’are looking at enough time for some of them to be grandparents.
Heck, I and most of my peers started with Gen 3 in elementary school. There’s a 3 in front of my age.
There are parents alive today who weren’t born when 9/11 happened. Or the day after on the 9th December.
Happens every year, doesn’t it?
