KylieDog said:
Devil_Survivor said:
Ok Kylie, this the internet no the real world lol :P. I really respect you what you wrote here is just really ingore and quite stupid. My dad got me into gaming in 1980's and he wasn't a manchild. He played and still plays probably more sports then anyone on its website and probably works more hours at 58. Plenty of fully fucntional adults played games back before the PS1.
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I was talking about widespread public perception and acceptance. When Nintendo dominated in the 80s and early 90s games were mainly seen as something for kids and manchildren, it is even how Nintendo marketed the NES, a kids toy.
When PS1 released it became something for people of all ages, had adult targeted marketing, adult only games (that weren't just MK style violence because of violence, but actual adult themes). It become socially acceptable for an adult to enjoy playing video games.
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Sorry, but anyone using the term "manchildren" to describe adults (male or female) who still love cool things they liked as kids? Pretty much one of the most retarded things ever in the existence of human language. What is the defining difference, might I ask, between these so-called (see: nonexistent) "manchildren", and people like most of the folks on this forum today, who are self-identifying nerds, both nostaligic and open proud about their avid love and passion for things they also loved as kids? What is the difference between the exact same thing being something stupid and shameful enough (apparently), to demean someone with such an uncreative, dim term, and then two decades later being considered "cool", "normal", and totally acceptable?
Point being, there never were any "manchildren". There were, and are, gamers. Period.
