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Anonymous05/12/26, 09:32No.12566792
How do I share my passion for retro games with my children so they group up loving retro games and not modern slop
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Anon05/12/26, 09:34No.12566794
Emulators
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Anon05/12/26, 09:35No.12566795
Make them play easier games with you, like Kirby Super Star.
And look into easy mode ROM hacks of harder games like Mega Man.
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Anon05/12/26, 09:36No.12566796
Remove new consoles and only place retro consoles in their vicinity. Play in front of them and let them play as well. Bonus points if you can get a modern console to only play retro games.
>Nes classic, snes classic, sega genesis classic etc.
Don't use switch, switch 2, ps4/ps5, xbone
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Anon05/12/26, 09:38No.12566798
Pretend to be poor and tell your children your pc is shit and can't afford new vidya, however you do have this thing called playstationand it has a bunch of psxhorror style games.
Yes, the psxhorror part is intentional, it's one of the "cool and hip" buzzwords kids use nowadays
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Anon05/12/26, 09:42No.12566801
Beat them
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Anon05/12/26, 09:46No.12566803
I'm a little bit younger, mid 20s and I'm not so sure if restricting your child from modern things is such a good idea. My parents basically did the same thing to me growing up, they wouldn't let me get a smart phone when those started proliferating, they wouldn't let me use Myspace or Facebook, the newest console I had was a Gamecube(until literally 2015), all the movies I had were from the 80s and eventually they got rid of cable in favor of being an early adopter of Netflix streaming which if any of you guys had Netflix streaming back when it first came out you'll know all it had was pretty old shit. This turned me into a complete social outcast in my school days, I couldn't relate to literally anybody. I almost made a few friends here and there but they faded away because I couldn't talk to them online or they wouldn't want to come over because I didn't have anything to do that would interest them. And now I'm a bitter young adult that hates everything around me because my tastes were shaped by the products of yesteryear. I don't hate that completely, I enjoy enjoying these things from before my time, but I do constantly wonder how things could have been if I had the things everyone else did.
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Anon05/12/26, 09:56No.12566808
>frogposter
>producing children
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Anon05/12/26, 10:11No.12566818
If they have a good time playing retro games with you, they will have nostalgia later in life
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Anon05/12/26, 10:25No.12566837
Play co-op games with them, the strongest memories of games they'll have is with other people
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Anon05/12/26, 11:07No.12566880
parents who want their children to be like them instead of a unique individual are the worst kind of parents.
my father never touched a game beside a few arcades and pong when is brother got it yet he bought me consoles and games because i was into that,sure he showed me the things he was interested in but we have vastly different passions and thats ok.
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Anon05/12/26, 11:16No.12566902
Imagine being the son a dumbass who can't even type and thinks the frog is funny
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Anon05/12/26, 11:17No.12566903
https://theonion.com/cool-dad-raising-daughter-on-media-that-will-put-her-en-1819572981/
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Anon05/12/26, 11:33No.12566917
force them
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Anon05/12/26, 12:21No.12566984
Get them an old computer of their own with emulators preinstalled.
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Anon05/12/26, 12:25No.12566993
Let them play fortnite and put your 200lb crt beside their tv and play FF7. They should immidietly be glued to your tv since older gamrs are better and not just nostalgia
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Anon05/12/26, 13:30No.12567212
1. Homeschool them
2. Do not give them any access to internet or phones
3. Make retro games their only form of entertainment
4. Only allow them to socialize with kids with the exact same restrictions.There you have it. Hopefully you live in America and not some commie yuropoor dystopia that would restrict this.
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Anon05/12/26, 13:49No.12567242
Reverse psychology. Keep your retro games somewhere separate from their new slop. Discourage them from messing with your stuff, but don't outright ban them from it, or lock it away somewhere they can't actually get to. Tell them they wouldn't like the games for being slow, having bad graphics, being hard, or just being "old".Also limit their internet access for reasonable reasons and prohibit them from spending money on bullshit like microtransactions or in-game currencies. That's just good parenting advice in general, but if you cut down the amount of time they can play multiplayer games, they'll end up playing more singleplayer games. And either they'll like the challenge of retro games, or they'll prefer the handholding of newer games and there's really not much you can do about it.
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Anon05/12/26, 19:54No.12567782
serious answer:provide a curated experience.Choose a selection of really good co-op or swappable 1P games that are geared toward children.emulate, and use wired controllers (Bluetooth just doesn't work).big screen, not touch screen.play with them, not against them.don't get sucked into the original hardware / X mini meme; imitation consoles provide a mostly shit experience.Example: I played Land of Illusion, Yoshi's Island and Streets of Rage 2 on a Chromebook with HDMI out to TV and two wired controllers with my 8yo son and he really enjoyed it.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:00No.12567790
I gave away my SNES mini to my sister's kids as a gift and they love it, I rather it go to someone who is going to enjoy them more than I did and I can just play it with them whenever I go visit.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:01No.12567794
play with them. good multiplayer arcade games are timeless.
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Anon05/12/26, 20:07No.12567807
I got into retro games because of AVGN. That, and also I've had a low-end computer so most games I could play were from the 3rd to the 5th gen on an emulator.
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Anon05/13/26, 09:13No.12568792
do not let them use an ipad and groom them at an early age and give them a nes/snes/genesis classic when they are about 4 yrs old Make those the only things the play. If they ask for something modern, tell em no because we cant afford it. But most of all spend time with your kid playing retro games, play co-op games especially and if they wanna be competitive. Play fighting games.
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Anon05/13/26, 10:42No.12568861
play games with them
don't force it
let them see your enthusiasm naturally
mix old and new games instead of treating modern games as corruption
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Anon05/13/26, 23:54No.12570218
Why are you avatarfagging with the reddit frog?
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Anon05/14/26, 05:46No.12570734
what's the point of having kids if I can't spend time with them with shared hobbies?
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Anon05/14/26, 05:48No.12570736
Make them play actually good games, my dad did and that lead me to playing mostly old games even into my adulthood.
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Anon05/14/26, 05:52No.12570742
DKC series. Good music, good gameplay, family friendly. I think it's timeless.
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Anon05/14/26, 06:15No.12570768
Play games with them?
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Anon05/14/26, 13:35No.12571487
Same way you don't let them become faggots or troons or fall for liberal claptrap; you beat the everloving shit out of them when they step out of line and make it clear to them that not only your love but indeed their being welcome in your home and at your dinner table is contingent on their behaving like proper men.
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Anon05/14/26, 13:41No.12571496
>Fire up retro console
>Play fun games with your kids
Done.
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Anon05/15/26, 21:04No.12574206
I have gen 3 through 6 stuff in my house and also a couple nintendo switches, the kids generally gravitate towards the switch but my oldest sons will play the retro by themselves sometimes. How I got them to play it at all was just playing it by myself on the weekends, they would watch me clear a megaman game or something short like that and then try it with mixed results, usually bad but they try. We sometimes play multiplayer games like mario kart or bomberman and that's fun but that doesn't happen a lot because the switch supports more players and everyone can play at the same time without taking turns. Retro is fun for me because that was my childhood, if they take interest in it, that's cool but I don't expect it. There are some really good modern games that I don't blame them for liking, if you're a dad with a couple kids I'd really recommend runbow on the switch, it's pretty hilarious and supports up to 8 players. keep them off online games obviously.
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Anon05/15/26, 22:18No.12574337
play only retro games with them from age 3-5 or whatever and dont let them see any modern slop, should be easy at that age since they are basically homebound
by the time they start making friends with other kids in school, they will have the sensibilities of retro ingrained within them