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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 208712, member: 77791"] My childhood was filled with rollerskating!!! However around kids rollerskating was socially banned for boys. I mean boys would be made fun of from everyone if they had used rollerskating so it was mostly a girl thing. My generation perhaps suffered from nonsense stereotypes regarding the sex people have. It either made people rebel by being a boy, growing hairs and even showing interest in rollerskating without any care, or they became a person who did what is subjectively right to be a girl or boy. I think rollerskating is cool but why I never did it is just because it was very dangerous for me. I never trusted myself to don't kill myself while using it lol. So as rest of the boys I was interested in skateboards yet naturally I was nowhere near the people who were really good at skating. I remember there was a rather popular girl group locally who enjoyed rollerskating together. I think they were either 3 or 4 girls.They came up with the most insane tricks I can't think of and they performed it without even any sense of protection! I admired there sense of fun and bravery from lack of protection. They were rather way older people than me, clearly highschool girls so their fame didn't last long because after a year or so they just disappeared. There were other people who were inspired by their local legend but long after such outdoor interests were reduced due to arcade and home video game console craze lol. This make me mention one of the greatest reason why video games were encouraged by parents in large scale: They saw the recent craze about rollerskating and skateboard as great danger to kids. I watch video game documentaries but as far as I know they only mention why video games got popular is because Pacman and whatnot, they never mention parents side of things. Rollerskating and skating very dangerous so they forced their kids to stay in homes by using video games as a good excuse. In the content of this topic and how this is a place about what is retro and video games, I thought this is an interesting opinion to share. Perhaps I'm very biased about it because I remember my mother one day told me they couldn't save one of the kid we knew who were living around because of severe head injury because he was riding a skateboard. She said parents talked about it and determined video games would be a great way to keep kids save. I remember my mother asking if I had cared to play Atari at home (she meant Atari 2600) and I was like "hell yeah" lololol. My mother thought I wouldn't be interested in video game. Pah! Video games 4 live yo!!! I know it's not an excuse because Tony Hawk still rocks but I don't skate anymore because I'm too old for this lol. The other day I was just walking and I had to sit down because some random pain around my hips. My body may getting older but my spirit gets younger!!! [/QUOTE]

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