If you had a kid who said "(your favorite games) are all for old farts" and only wanted to play some 4-D super-ultra-HD web 5.0 virtual reality games about shooting space marine hookers full of dynamite, and the games were just full of product placement and DLC about Coca Cola and McDonald's, and the game was sensationalist crap and more marketing than fun... what would you do to them?
And what would/could you do earlier to try to prevent them from coming out like that?
I think I'd lock my bastard children in a basement with arcade machines of Donkey Kong, Street Fighter 2, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and a few others, and not release them until they could tell me how the games ended (or in the case of games that went on forever, they'd have to get past 5 levels of Pac-Man and 10 of Space Invaders). But they'd have to describe the endings through their foodhole. And they'd only get to eat old Nintendo ice cream sandwiches and Nintendo juice boxes until they were a true Marioboy.
Or maybe to try to prevent this I'd give them a bunch of 3rd generation consoles when they're 3, 4th generation consoles when they're 4, etc. etc., and they'd get the PSWii60 when they're 7. Hopefully this would allow them to grow up with an appreciation of game history and game art and genre conventions and evolutions.
What would you do to prevent or punish this behavior?
