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For the last ten years, Andy Baio has been performing an experiment
on his son. It is equal parts cruel and fascinating. Rather than let
him play whatever video game he wanted, Baio made his boy work his way
to modernity by playing through the history of video games
chronologically. Starting with 1979's Galaxian.
His son Eliot was born in 2004, so Baio has this week published the findings of his decade-long "experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting."
The point was to let his son explore the history of the medium and how
it has transformed over the decades, maybe giving him an appreciation of
older (or newer but cruder) games that he might otherwise have
dismissed as relics.
Eliot was
given his first video games on his fourth birthday. Those games were
Galaxian (1979), Rally-X (1980), Bosconian (1981), Dig Dug (1982),
Pac-Man (1980), Super Pac-Man (1982), Pac-Man Plus (1982) and Pac &
Pal (1983).
Next was
the Atari 2600. Then the NES. Then the SNES. And so on. And by God,
whether it was working or not, it sounds like Eliot was kicking ass.
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