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Okay, so apparently I now have a goddaughter. Baptized and everything. She'll be 10 months old this November. However, as a good godfather who went way too deep into video games, of course I'm already thinking about how to introduce her to this universe. Her father, who is also my best friend, entrusted me with this task. We'll do some things together, but he gave me carte blanche in this concern to think and do things my way. So, actually, what he gave me wasn't carte blanche, but rather existential crises and philosophical, ethical, moral reflections. lol
This is proving much harder than it seems. First, I thought about the sheer number of games I'll be introducing her to. I grew up with an NES clone that had few games, then I moved to the PS2, where there were many more and they were easily accessible because of piracy. Not only were there many options, but there were games like SNES Station with 1000 Super Nintendo games. But it's not at the same level now. Even with all that, we still had to leave the house and buy the games; it's not like it is today, with emulation allowing you to fit all the 1st-6th generation games onto a single Micro SD card. That's the starting point. Secondly, we decided for now that we'll go with chronology, that is, NES > SNES > GB > N64 > GC. We want her to be raised more on Nintendo, it stimulates more creativity in our view and, above all, because it's more user-friendly, in a way. Also when she gets to GC she'll play Sonic so whatever. But then the real problems begin.
Which game? Should I put on the first Mario, then Mario 3? Should I put on one at a time, let her get bored, or finish one and then put on another? And what about other games, like Zelda, should I put on the NES version right away or only when she gets to the SNES and introduce A Link to the Past? Should I wait until she finishes learning to read to introduce these? Children learn to read around 5-7 years old, so it will take a while, but what about when she starts? What about RPG? Mario RPG? Or just Zelda? What if she likes Dragon Quest?Or Final Fantasy? Idk. There's too many options. When she became a pre-teenager (god help me) I'll problably show her to PS games, Valkyrie Profile or Parasite Eve. I don't know what girls usually like about videogames in general. Hope this didn't sound sexist. My women friends grew up loving those I cited. There's this friend of mine which love Darkstalkers and Bloody Roar, so the pattern is kinda shattered. There's also the influence of your social conjuncture, she'll love the games we introduce to her, when you are a child I guess you just like everything. I did hate Tomb Raider, though. Which is a good option as well. I thought too about some farming game, maybe Harvest Moon? Or just wait and Rune Factory? That'd be cool. Maybe I'm thinking about the cuteness and whatnot. Really don't know, I grew up addicted to God of War and Crash Twinsanity.
I also thought about introducing Pokémon, which her father will surely want, but then there are some doubts. I didn't want her to look down on older games because they're "ugly," so instead of putting in the GBA games, I thought about putting in Yellow, which has Pikachu, and going from there. That's also an option. Everything will take time; I'll need to see what she adapts to best. I'm clearly overthinking this lmao
Another thing is the detail of which device she'll play on. I'm thinking of keeping my Miyoo Mini Plus to give to her when she's about 4 or 5 years old (the age we plan to start introducing her to games, because it was our age too, with Bomberman and Mario on NES). I'll configure the Miyoo Mini Plus for a few consoles; in fact, I'll initially only put in one, as I said above, based on the linear logic of generation releases. It's a great handheld for playing Game Boy, so the Pokémon idea is very good. That's one aspect of it. On the other hand, one of the coolest things about video games is playing with other people. In that sense, the Miyoo Mini would be very limiting, unless you have another one, because with Onion OS you can configure and play multiplayer on LAN. But you can also build a desktop gaming machine, which I can easily configure, to play on the TV and have everyone play together, which would also be cool. We'll probably do both.
So? What do you think? Has anyone been through this or is going through it now? Please give me some advice, I'm going crazy.
Okay, so apparently I now have a goddaughter. Baptized and everything. She'll be 10 months old this November. However, as a good godfather who went way too deep into video games, of course I'm already thinking about how to introduce her to this universe. Her father, who is also my best friend, entrusted me with this task. We'll do some things together, but he gave me carte blanche in this concern to think and do things my way. So, actually, what he gave me wasn't carte blanche, but rather existential crises and philosophical, ethical, moral reflections. lol
This is proving much harder than it seems. First, I thought about the sheer number of games I'll be introducing her to. I grew up with an NES clone that had few games, then I moved to the PS2, where there were many more and they were easily accessible because of piracy. Not only were there many options, but there were games like SNES Station with 1000 Super Nintendo games. But it's not at the same level now. Even with all that, we still had to leave the house and buy the games; it's not like it is today, with emulation allowing you to fit all the 1st-6th generation games onto a single Micro SD card. That's the starting point. Secondly, we decided for now that we'll go with chronology, that is, NES > SNES > GB > N64 > GC. We want her to be raised more on Nintendo, it stimulates more creativity in our view and, above all, because it's more user-friendly, in a way. Also when she gets to GC she'll play Sonic so whatever. But then the real problems begin.
Which game? Should I put on the first Mario, then Mario 3? Should I put on one at a time, let her get bored, or finish one and then put on another? And what about other games, like Zelda, should I put on the NES version right away or only when she gets to the SNES and introduce A Link to the Past? Should I wait until she finishes learning to read to introduce these? Children learn to read around 5-7 years old, so it will take a while, but what about when she starts? What about RPG? Mario RPG? Or just Zelda? What if she likes Dragon Quest?Or Final Fantasy? Idk. There's too many options. When she became a pre-teenager (god help me) I'll problably show her to PS games, Valkyrie Profile or Parasite Eve. I don't know what girls usually like about videogames in general. Hope this didn't sound sexist. My women friends grew up loving those I cited. There's this friend of mine which love Darkstalkers and Bloody Roar, so the pattern is kinda shattered. There's also the influence of your social conjuncture, she'll love the games we introduce to her, when you are a child I guess you just like everything. I did hate Tomb Raider, though. Which is a good option as well. I thought too about some farming game, maybe Harvest Moon? Or just wait and Rune Factory? That'd be cool. Maybe I'm thinking about the cuteness and whatnot. Really don't know, I grew up addicted to God of War and Crash Twinsanity.
I also thought about introducing Pokémon, which her father will surely want, but then there are some doubts. I didn't want her to look down on older games because they're "ugly," so instead of putting in the GBA games, I thought about putting in Yellow, which has Pikachu, and going from there. That's also an option. Everything will take time; I'll need to see what she adapts to best. I'm clearly overthinking this lmao
Another thing is the detail of which device she'll play on. I'm thinking of keeping my Miyoo Mini Plus to give to her when she's about 4 or 5 years old (the age we plan to start introducing her to games, because it was our age too, with Bomberman and Mario on NES). I'll configure the Miyoo Mini Plus for a few consoles; in fact, I'll initially only put in one, as I said above, based on the linear logic of generation releases. It's a great handheld for playing Game Boy, so the Pokémon idea is very good. That's one aspect of it. On the other hand, one of the coolest things about video games is playing with other people. In that sense, the Miyoo Mini would be very limiting, unless you have another one, because with Onion OS you can configure and play multiplayer on LAN. But you can also build a desktop gaming machine, which I can easily configure, to play on the TV and have everyone play together, which would also be cool. We'll probably do both.
So? What do you think? Has anyone been through this or is going through it now? Please give me some advice, I'm going crazy.
