That's not a positive though. My kids will not come out of their rooms, both playing online nonsense with their friends. And hard to convince them when we have heat warnings every day.

My oldest pretty much plays Ark/Rust/Rocket League all the time. Contrast to when I was his age, we had a few regular games but played tons of different C64, Amiga 500, MSX and PC games together. (Of course piracy was rampant, less than 1% of the games we played were actually paid for. Hence NES/SNES were out). My youngest is a bit more adventurous with gaming but still mostly sticks to Roblox and Fortnite. Meanwhile I have about a thousand quality (physical) games in my collection ready to be played at any time from PS2/GC/XBox until now. They used to play some of those yet after getting addicted to online, no more... Yes online gaming does take over the lives of kids :/

I agree with you it's not good but i was just saying in terms of not being bored by games it's endless now and can take over your life easily. like in the 90s most of the popular all time great games would be finished or be done with them within a 1 week to a month max. In the 90s i would just rent games and be done with in 1 week lol. Now games are massive with so much content, QOL save points, and online play that gaming just never gets boring, and on top of that you have thousands of games available via emulation. 

I have to go with the 90s, there is almost no competition!

In those 10 years there were so many great games and systems to play.. we ranged from latest 8-bit gen games to the early "128-bit" ones.
Arcades (2D / 3D), early PC gaming, Gameboy, Megadrive, Mega CD, Super NES, Neo Geo, PC-Engine (cd-rom games), Jaguar, 3DO, PlayStation, Saturn, Nintendo 64 and.. Dreamcast!

90's because of Street Fighter II on the SNES. It changed my life (and I'm not even good at it). Everything of that game was just fantastic: graphics, gameplay, sound, characters (and being able to choose from 8 very different ones was never seen before). People can call him a boring character without rough edges but for myself, Ryu speaks to me in a way no other fictional character ever has (to this day). I truly miss the Fighting games of the 90's where characters were stereotype and traditional (Ryu himself is the best example: Japanese, ok lets make him a traditional martial artist with a white Karate-gi). The modern characters of fighting games (incl. of Street Fighter 6), I don't know, I just can't stand those colorful, cringeworthy talking hipster teenage characters and please no children! Everything below 16 is simply misplaced in a fighting game. (Street) fighting is a serious thing but that's the other big issue with today's fighting games, they don't take themselves serious. When they punch and kick each other, there's no harm, no pain, instead stupid smiles and cuddling. Not that Street Fighter 2 was a very serious game but it definitely has contexture for certain deepness.

Super street fighter 2 was my most played game on Sega Genesis. too bad I had no one to challenge Me. I played the cpu till I was finally able to beat it at hardest difficulty and with losing any fights.

I later started playing super street fighter 2 turbo on fightcade have 400 hours in. Yea Ryu is one of my face characters of all time. And felt the same way you did. Only sikero was only able to give me that same feeling.

In a strange kinda way, I feel like many of the best 90s games hold up better than most games from the 2000s.
Something like Super Mario World or Yoshi's Island has aged more gracefully than even a lot of really good games of the 6th and 7th generations.
If we were to fast forward the clock to 2043, I wouldn't be surprised if they hold up better then than most games coming out today.
There's something to be said for elegant simplicity.

2d games peaked in the 90s and I think 3d games have peaked in the PS4 generation.

Early 3D games don't hold up very well. The cameras almost universally suck, and the industry hadn't really settled on what kind of control schemes made sense. A lot of that stuff is more or less unplayable today, especially if you're are a player of modern games, so you are used to modern cameras and modern controls.

I obviously have no way of knowing how well current games will hold up 20 years down the line. But, I think it will be a lot better than the early 3D games hold up today.  

1990s, for sure. A decade of endless innovation, going from 2D to 3D, going from offline to online. Multiple GOAT contenders being released every year of the decade. Of course, the true GOAT, Ocarina of Time, in 1998. The decade of Pokemon. The decade of couch co-op, which is sorely missing from games now. No DLC (minus large-scale expansions) / microtransactions. No day one patches to rely on - you either released the game broken and it stayed that way forever, or you waited and released it in a working state. This resulted in broken / unplayable messes being released far less common than they are today. Lastly, one can just look at the best titles released throughout the decades and see for themselves. 90s, followed by the 2000s. It's been all downhill since about 2014 for me. That's not to say that great games never happen now, but the frequency of greatness vs disappointment is skewed far more in the latter category these days, imo, especially when compared to the 90s and 00s.

Random question, but do you ever sit down with an old game (like even from Amiga days or NES days) and either of the kids come over and ask to play or watch?.

Both seem like they have their own favourite games, but I've always wondered if they would pick up after your tastes.

Also, do they spent more time online gaming versus what we grew up with? (single player/co-op).