Comments on: Video games become an adult pursuit. I say grow up Generation X!

By: Torg Saknusen

Torg Saknusen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:17:32 +0000

Perhaps the problem in America today is that the
Generation-X Grungers weren’t beaten enough by their fathers.

When one considers the totality of damage that GENERATION-X has visited upon the world, an infinite amount of beating would still be insufficient.

By: mcphargus

mcphargus — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:45:40 +0000

How about those good ol’ days? Those days when considerably more fathers used to drink copiously and beat the hell out of their kids for real instead of in Halo, good times those days were. I’m quite grateful that my father hangs out with me and plays a little Halo or Champions of Norath instead of leaving the house, getting hammered, having an affair or any one of the other unscrupulous extracurriculars he could be involved in. Honestly, give the industry a break and give dad’s everywhere a break. There’s nothing wrong with a forty year old dad hanging out with his 14 year old son, doing something besides bitching about the state of the lawn. There’s my two cents.

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:05:41 +0000

The need to grow up

I honestly couldn’t help but laugh when I came across this. The basic gist of the article appears to be that rather than continue to play Video Games and buy “childish” material we should all be getting loans for suits we can’t …

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:47:22 +0000

For starters: Yes, you might be old fashioned…

I’m from Generation X.
I grew up, have a job, used to be married, have a son and didn’t leave my entire childhood behind.

For instance, I’m still in the mood to hook up the old turntable and listen to some of the records from the “young years” (I’m not into collecting old comic books or figurines…) – put on Bryan Adams’ “In The Heat Of The Night” and I’m certainly among those screaming along…
I’m still in the mood to play arcade classics like Pacman, Dig Dug, Penta, Moon Patrol and Defender.
I have a playstation that I occasionally must “fight” with the son and his friends to get access to (they always win…).

That doesn’t mean I’m not able to spend time with my loved ones.
That doesn’t mean I cannot find time to goto Legoland for an entire day with my son (whooopss…a theme park, sort of, which apparently is in the “gray zone” in the context above).
That doesn’t mean I’m unable to play soccer with my son, my friends (and their sons/daughters) on a summer day…

My point is that “growing up” shouldn’t necessarily cut one off from doing things you used to love – and still might love to do on an OCCASIONAL basis. The opposite would be really old-fashioned, from my point of view.
But then again – I’m from Gen. X and it seems like it’s not considered “appropriate” to do things you used to love…

Of course theres a limit of these “childhood” activities, – they cannot (and shouldn’t) take up too much time/space, so other things/tasks – like taking care of the household and going to work – gets lower priority.
If that was the point in the article, I couldn’t agree more.