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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5415847" data-attributes="member: 59082">I don't think you're going back far enough, Shemeska. When you talk about &quot;earlier generations playing different consoles&quot; it sounds like you are talking about the 90s. But we have go back further and look at when D&amp;D really boomed: the late 70s and early 80s, when video games were very primitive and largely relegated to arcades (like Flynn's!).Now people started having personal computers in the 70s, and the Atari game console goes back to the mid-70s I think (Pong was 1975), but it wasn't until the late 80s that personal computers became common and not until the 90s that video gaming really took off, mainly due to technological advancements. So to say that video games have been around forever is a huge simplification, especially when you consider the differences between video games now, fifteen years ago, and thirty years ago. Mrs. Pac Man wasn't quite the competition for a 12-year old's attention that World of Warcraft is.Hey, this has inspired me to start a related thread on generations of RPG players, so stay tuned for more (I'll put the link in this thread).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 5415847, member: 59082"] I don't think you're going back far enough, Shemeska. When you talk about "earlier generations playing different consoles" it sounds like you are talking about the 90s. But we have go back further and look at when D&D really boomed: the late 70s and early 80s, when video games were very primitive and largely relegated to arcades (like Flynn's!). Now people started having personal computers in the 70s, and the Atari game console goes back to the mid-70s I think ([I]Pong [/I]was 1975), but it wasn't until the late 80s that personal computers became common and not until the 90s that video gaming really took off, mainly due to technological advancements. So to say that video games have been around forever is a huge simplification, especially when you consider the differences between video games now, fifteen years ago, and thirty years ago. [I]Mrs. Pac Man [/I]wasn't quite the competition for a 12-year old's attention that [I]World of Warcraft [/I]is. Hey, this has inspired me to start a related thread on generations of RPG players, so stay tuned for more (I'll put the link in this thread). [/QUOTE]

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