Chrkeller said:
SvennoJ said:
Do you have kids? Kids are interested in the tactile experience. My kids loved playing with all the old consoles, their interest in old games started based on the hardware. I want to play with that controller daddy (gamecube) so I hooked the gamecube back up and they enjoyed the games on it. Then they got into ps2 and the funky looking Intellivision. The voice module was a big hit. I wish I still had a Vectrex, that's a true magical marvel, hopefully it will be remade at some point (that is if the hardware schematics have been preserved) but you can still find them if looking hard enough.
Old digital games in a menu on my PC, zero interest. So I'm sorry to pop your balloon of presenting your grand kids with a vast digital library, that's not how kids get excited about things. Mine were all over our 90's Gameboys we still had lying around. Couple fresh batteries, and off they went playing Mario games on the gameboy. Tons of fun. Zero interest in playing them in the virtual console.
We grow up tasting everything first, mouth is your primary tool, then hands, brain comes last. Digital is great for nostalgia, irrelevant for growing up. VR has a much better chance to appeal to kids (it does) but the Wii motes were the biggest success for when they were toddlers, as well as eye toy / kinect, DDR dance mats, light guns, Move sharpshooter. Just copying digital games is not preservation, it's merely feeding your nostalgia. It's only part of the experience. |
My kids are the complete opposite. The idea of physical media and wired controllers are a huge turn off. They love digital. They are twins and 12 years old. Both have beaten the likes of horizon, tears, hogwarts, breath and many others. The one is playing tales arise as we speak. |
Oh they are into those now as well (12 and 14 now). I meant when they were 4 and 6, discovering video games through the tactile experience. Already at 2-3 years old getting a kick out of crashing the plane in Wii sports resort, feeling the rumble as the pilot jumps out. That look of joy and wonder on their face is priceless.
Now they're old and just play whatever you tube tells them to play :/ 14 year old is into Rust and Rocket League, 12 year old wants to play GTA 5 and is configuring the color sequences on his new keyboard. BotW uses motion controls btw, still need that tactile part ;)
They grew up too fast, perverted by you tube streamers! Yet the youngest still wants to play 1-2-Switch now and then. How will that be preserved digital only...
