My 8yo daughters favourite game is...

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The Secret of Monkey Island.

Yes, not Candy Crush, Temple Run or Angry feathered things or other cookie cutter tripe.

When asked "Why do you like that game so", the reply is "I like the story and the dialogue and the adventure".

She is playing the special edition and will often switch to the "classic" mode, she tells me that is easier, I would have expected most kids of today to shutdown if looking at that in all its naked 8-bit glory.

Yes, I am a gaming snob but as a gamer, I feel my work as a father is complete.

At 8, Monkey Island is the type of game many of us were playing yet nowadays 8 year old kids are exposed to a different style of "game" which on many occasions I think are pathetic.

Rose tinted glasses perhaps? Maybe? I do believe that educating children about games and their history is however as important as an adult learning how to enjoy a fine wine/ale.

If not for the next generation knowing what the content of a "classic" game should be, what inspiration does that leave them to develop the next "classics"? And for the next generation to know a classic and purchase it to support the cycle.
 
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You're doing a great job as a gamer dad, keep up the good work. I think it's time to introduce her to multiplayer oldies - owning her at Quake once a week should gradually increase her skills, cement your authority as a father and decrease the chance of her bringing home a loser when she hits her teens.
 
Gimpymoo: "Come on, dinner time, turn that off now please."
Daughter: "You fight like a dairy farmer!"

Not far off.

The thing is, she will say something like "Oh, has took me ages to figure out this part and have just done it".

The inner gamer of me sympathises, it really does - lol. When I said that my parents, they not being gamers did not fully understand what I was saying.
 
Ah yes, memories. Being asked to turn a game off before a save point, or having to pause at a critical juncture for dinner. Then unpausing and dying instantly lol.

A world of pain children of the gaming generation won't have to endure, as you say thanks to sympathetic parents. :D
 
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