# Kids have no sense of history or nostalgia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422 "2005-01-06T18:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/21 "2005-01-06T23:37:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Bobby: Yeah. My best friend, he looks just like this dot: small, handsome and adventurous. That. Is. Awesome. And having done a whole ton of hanging out with 9 - 12 year olds, yes, I can completely believe that all these things were said by the kids. They can be absolutely hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/22 "2005-01-07T00:35:41Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > And having done a whole ton of hanging out with 9 - 12 year olds, yes, I can completely believe that all these things were said by the kids. Ditto. My wife’s uncle’s two kids are 10 and 13, and I can hear everything in these articles coming out of their mouths. Makes it even funnier that way, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/23 "2005-01-07T01:25:14Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > That. Is. Awesome. > > And having done a whole ton of hanging out with 9 - 12 year olds, yes, I can completely believe that all these things were said by the kids. They can be absolutely hilarious. Funny the other day I was going to post a article about my kids and their friends. Sounds like this article when you consider there’s a NES, SNES, Sega, Sega Saturn not working ☹ ), Play Station and XBox. The first four were mine 😃 and of course that’s whne all the giggling starts. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/24 "2005-01-07T01:44:43Z")
> [@Dewey Finn](#): > > With no sense of nostalgia or history, they conclude the games are dumb. To be honest, a lot of those games were, for lack of a better word, “dumb”. I would’ve said primitive. As much as I love games like Super Mario Brothers or The Legend of Zelda (and I do love and frequently play such “old-school” games), you have to admit that they are in many ways lacking in gameplay and full of annoyances. Pong is essentially dumbed down 2D table tennis- real table tennis gets boring after a while, and pong gets boring even faster. There’s no way to save in SMB- if you die, even if you’re facing Bowser in level 8-8, you start at the begining. _Very_ frustrating. These games were good for their time, and are still fun now, but the fact is that due to the primative technology available to make them at the time, the average pre-SNES game just isn’t as good as the average post-SNES game (there are, of course, numerous exceptions) However, for their comments about Tetris and Galaga, these children deserve to die. (OK, that’s a bit drastic. Maybe just be tied up and mercilessly tickled, or something. But you just don’t badmouth Galaga) ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/25 "2005-01-07T04:15:53Z")
My little brother is 11, and he would say things like in those articles. I thought it was totally believable. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422/26 "2005-01-07T04:56:27Z")
My eleven- and fourteen-year-old cousins (who slaughtered me in Halo 2 over the holidays, though I can’t say it was actually difficult to beat me) would say stuff like that too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kids-have-no-sense-of-history-or-nostalgia/283422.md?page=1)