"If you really want to go right to the beginning try and grab a magnavox odyssey it's the first home console dating way back to 1972" i clearly mentioned i am talking about home consoles
I got both my nephews on old school shit and I've always thought it was cool how they took to it. They get every single Castlevania game, every Mega Man, all the re-releases, they love the old stuff. You should have seen my eldest nephew the day I gave him his own Super Nintendo and a copy of A Link To The Past.
Yeah, not because children should be exposed to older games first-because that's actually limiting access to a number of games designed for children. But because there are games that are very dark and too scary for youngsters, games that encourage racist tendencies, games with sexual content, ect.
You shouldn't censor your child's entertainment choices indefinitely. At some point there should be an explanation of why the racism in this game(or other media) is wrong and a discussion about it. And this should continue with exposure to harsher takes on reality as the child is old enough to handle it (ie. Depictions of addiction, unhealthy relationships, ect.) By the time your child is an adult, they should have been exposed to all sorts of media. You can't show your kid porn (and you shouldn't) but when your kid finds violent porn on the internet on their own (because they will) you want to have already had conversations about violence and unhealthy relationships.
Regardless, you're right.
I think Computer Space did come before the Odyssey, though.
That's not the same thing.
You shouldn't censor your child's entertainment choices indefinitely. At some point there should be an explanation of why the racism in this game(or other media) is wrong and a discussion about it. And this should continue with exposure to harsher takes on reality as the child is old enough to handle it (ie. Depictions of addiction, unhealthy relationships, ect.) By the time your child is an adult, they should have been exposed to all sorts of media. You can't show your kid porn (and you shouldn't) but when your kid finds violent porn on the internet on their own (because they will) you want to have already had conversations about violence and unhealthy relationships.