I was born in the 80’s and grew up playing consoles that if you asked kids these days if they have ever heard of them they would look at you like you were from a different planet. I like to think I grew up in an era where the video game industry was making its biggest gains and it shaped the way the video game industry is today. I will stand by this statement and say that my generation is the BEST gaming generation of all time! BOOOOYA!
Kids these days will not know the struggle of what we all went through. First off we all enjoyed playing outside before we sat down and played games. Yet we logged fewer hours in gaming and managed to become gods of the gaming world. As I got older and got into online gaming, we didn’t have these lavish download speeds and high-speed internet. We had that lovely 56k modem set up where if someone picked up the phone your connection online was lost! Do you know how many times I raged while I was playing Counter-Strike on PC and my mom would pick up the phone? Kids these days complain about LAG, try playing on a 56k modem and then give me a fucking call. We never had the luxury of digital downloads we actually had to ride our bikes to the local video game store to merely look at video games because our parents wouldn’t cough up any cash for us to buy games. Good thing we all got jobs at the age of 12 otherwise I don’t think we would be gamers right now. I would like to give a shout out to Blockbuster Video for allowing us to rent video games at the time and you will forever be in our hearts. Thank You.