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60% Of Kids Play Games Every Day
Next Generation has a piece up stating that, according to a JuniorSenior Research poll, something like 60% of all children play video games every day. From the article: "39% of the children polled said they were happy to pay a high price for games they especially wanted, and said they had saved up to buy a particular game. A third of children say their friends are the primary resource for information about new games, signaling the absolute importance of playground evangelists. Surprisingly a quarter of kids say advertising is a key source of information, while only 10% say they rely on TV shows."
The study also concluded that 35% of kids live in caves, and an additional 5% lack opposable thumbs.
Why, back in my day when I was a youngster, many many years ago, I was given two shillings per month allowance for feeding the Gobblins, before they became turkeys - we had to change the name because of the War. You always had to wear an onion on your belt, as was the style at the time.
Our town had two video game shoppes on either end, Hanzel's Interactive Inn, and Paul's Pixel Purchasorium on the north end of town, but that was for high-class folk, what with their fammycoms.
I myself was an Amiga boy, I got my joystick from my pappy, who got his from his grandpappy, who had to fight them Injuns for his. The joystick was about 10 cubits high and weighed about 40 stone, and we had to wake EARLY in the morning to make the walk to the games shoppe if we wanted to be there before it closed... 15 leagues to be exact.
When you got to the store you'd stand in line, and ask the developer to compile you up some code, yessir! And he would sit down, and COBOL you up some fine bits, and this was before that newfangled removable storage... you was just told a bunch of 1s and 0s, and had to remember what order they came in on the way back home.
You'd come back, chop some trees, feed 'em into the old generator, and play your game in front of the stove fire. Oh, those were simple days, better days. Back when 8 whole bits was more than the King of England himself could afford.
Hmph, and you try and tell this to those punk kids today, and they say you're making it all up. Bunch of no-good whippersnappers.
I doubt many 10 year olds come on slashdot.
Don't browse at -1, do you?
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