well seeing as come 1985 that was when the first 3D video game came out, as well as the MPEG, Movies playable on Computers Via Quicktime, CNN was aired, along with all of the Turner Networks including Cartoon Network, world wide, and the CD was just starting to become popular... and the Atari was going to be replaced by Nintendo in a few years... I think I had it quite good being born in 1985
But already i'm looking around, and kids ARE getting it better, but they're also missing out on alot. Mario 3 is a game that every kid should play just to have that learning experience... and yet I see them playing these weird games on Playstation that nobody cares about, watching HORRID disney films with no magic in them like Lilo and Stitch, and knowing Starwars Episode 1 and 2 before Return of the Jedi and the other GREAT classics likes "1984" the book and LOTR will always be a movie to them before a book... and when they actually did something Descent like Harry potter it was went and made into a movie like 10 times faster than LOTR! What the heck is with that? And imported Anime will forever be screwed up for them, they wont know the original Dragon ball, or Samurai Pizza Cats, they wont experience the Power rangers like we did, they wont know of GI-Joe or Mask or Tom and Jerry, it'll all be about Ed, Edd, and Eddy and Spong Bob! It makes me SICK! -_- I can see it already happening in my cousins, so i went and did them a favor: I sent them an Atari 2600, mint condition... Hopefully when I see them again the boy will have a red-dyed mohawk will be wearing parachute pants and be listening to Grunge Rock bands like Malice Mitzer...
we can only hope...
I already had another young cousin of mine (the age of 8) receive a nintendo Gamecube...
and guess what...
he doesnt know who Mario is... Or Louigi or Donkey Kong or anyone! infact the only game he had when I saw him was STAR wars! So I went and bought him Smash Brothers, only to have my uncle call and say it contained the Satanic Pokemon!
i then had to give him a long lecture about the history of a VERY WELL-THOUGHT-OUT and INNOVATE Role Playing Game for the Gameboy and how we can't look to Japanese scape goats to blame outselves for poor parenting like SOME PASTORS...
kids these days...
THEY WONT EVEN KNOW A WORLD OF P&P D&D... OR WARHAMMER since it's gone now!
and they won't know battletech or Asteroids or Laser Disks or Vynill Records T_T
its saaaad *crys*