Being a Gen X Gamer, or What Do I Care?
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
- I'm Generation X, that generation that everyone forgets about, even though they are today's parents. What makes Gen X tick? And why is Generation X so important to gaming? Meet Gen X, the original, and the longest gamers in the world.
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I'm a late millennial, I've been gaming since I was like 4 or 5. My parents had a computer it was windows 95. I remember playing sim ant and sim city. My mom would build cities and let me destroy them. That was just the start. We played Mario on her Nintendo system and eventually got a ps2 and an xbox 360. I've always been gaming.
"Gen X is often forgotten"
Nah, we just lump you in with the boomers lol 😂
Idk abt that one. I see gen x like gen z a little but a little bit more mature MOST of the times.
Wish i could have grown up in that time period
13:20 I remember my dad buying an IBM workstation in the mid 90s, was quite fun playing Wolfenstein 3D on it, didn't get internet until several years later. Was quite an experience playing Runescape on a dial-up modem, sitting there and hoping no one would call and mess with the connection (back when landline's where still a thing and not everyone had cellphone's).
16:17 Bit sad that Gen-X was pretty much ignored by boomers, this lead to Gen-X overcompensating and creating stuff like curling/helicopter parents. Think it was also this time that the stranger danger stuff really started gaining traction. Sort of hate also later on how participation awards became a thing, all cause people where so scared that someone might get offended from them/their crotch goblin not winning. So someone came up with the idea of just diluting the whole winning thing, now no one's a winner and there's no reason to put down effort to succeed cause you get a stupid participation award thing regardless.
18:48 "throwing snowballs at cars"
I did something much worse, I once threw apples at passing cars together with a friend. I was too young and dumb to connect that maybe, just maybe that's not the best idea.
20:25 When I was in grade 4, I would sometimes take the nearby train to town. I loved visiting a mom and pop video game store called "Playoff". Would later on buy Pokemon cards there. Had a really hilarious memory of my dad buying the Jurassic park game for the NES, sadly this was before we had internet and reviews so it was allot worse than I thought. He paid 95$ for it, got 10$ back when we later on returned it. Sort of felt a bit bad for that, such a waste of money for that game.
Although I am gen z, I feel like I really resonated with gen x (probably just because of my parents being gen x) And in my early childhood before Covid and my parents' divorce I got to go hiking and live right next to the wilderness for most of my summers. I did get into gaming since age 6 with StarCraft2 on my computer as my dad and older brother were really into it. I'm not sure if it was before I got into SC2 but I also played Nintendo games like Mario galaxy and Mario kart, as well as some games on my shared tablet like PVZ and MSM.
On another note, I do think that I was raised in a way where my life was easy, and I never really had any issues outside of school other than the occasional pain from basically anything or my mom punishing me. (my dad was good cop) And due to this I never really try in anything unless I just feel like putting in effort, or I chose a path I knew took effort but the effort was to my expectation. If any responsibilities get pushed onto me without me wanting them, I always never try my hardest, and sometimes I don't try at all if I feel that I am not being respected.
I'm kinda going on tangents constantly so apologies on that part, but I also had trouble in school as I always felt that I was much more mature than most at age 10-12. but now I feel like I haven't matured at all since then and have no clue and no direction for where to go. I want to pursue goals but I've always been extremely attached to my childhood so spending any more than 8 hours on not-fun activities that I'm being forced to do feels like torture (school, soon to be work, homework, chores, getting a drivers license). I am also contemplating not going to college (yet) as I don't think I'm even close to ready mentally and every single time in school I have listened to others telling me a class that I'm contemplating taking is not hard, it ends up being torture and a plague on the whole school year. So if I do take college there is no reasonable way I should be taking it the year out of high school.
I can't really think of more to say and I kinda need to sleep now so I'll end this off with this statement:
I think I probably have had one of the best (early) childhoods out of the majority of people as compared to living in the suburbs (which are just horrible (who even thought that this is the American dream anyway?)) Living with your grandparents and cousins while hiking almost every day in the woods that completely surrounded the house, all with Spanish relatives besides my mom. I mean like I really miss my early childhood and the only reason I hated school and covid was because I felt robbed of my childhood, like it just got ripped from my hands and I couldn't do anything to stop it. And now I have to work most days with very little payoff and literally almost zero immediate payoff, making it feel like worthless work.
Idk I hope whoever reads this doesn't take it as too hard to read.
Have a good day :)
Hello, I’m a gen z 19 year old college student ! First, I’d like to say that I like your voice. It’s easy to listen to and calming. But, I would like to tell you we are more similar than you think. I had many of the same experiences and I along with the people around me thought the tide pod thing was stupid too. Don’t let the outrageous news about one tiny portion of a population skew your reality. A holier than thou mindset between generations has been happening since the beginning of recorded history. I see it happening between my generation and my younger brother’s. It will likely continue, but it really shouldn’t. I think it’s cool we might enjoy the same games, I hope my future children and I will play together and relate to each other one day. We’re all just kids growing up. Hope you keep having fun playing games and making content!
(Ps I would recommend having a little more structure to your thoughts, it would be even more captivating !)
"6:31 first one's to play Super Mario Brothers"
Back when I was 5 years old, my dad surprised me with an NES/Super Mario Bros bundle. Despite not being very good at he start, became quite obsessed with it. Managed to beat Super Mario Bros 1 without warps, was quite hard to do but I managed to do it. My dad saw how much I loved video games and started buying more for me, later on he got a super nintendo and Mega Drive (or genesis for burger land people). Later on I sold my games, one of the greatest regrets I still have.
11:19 "fun generation to be in"
I consider myself a young gen X, allot due to my mom is a boomer and my dad was silent gen (yes, there' was a 20 year difference between my parents).Saying I am half-boomer would sound weird so I went with Gen-X, that and I have very little in common with Millennials.
i was going to say i feel like i was born later than i should have been right before you said some of the older millennials can be grouped in with GenX haha i was raised in a very GenX style house, or i guess outside of the house. good video JayDee, ive said it before and ill say it again, i really enjoy hearing your perspective on things
It really fascinates me to hear about life from the pov of someone older than me. Im fully in gen Z, im barely getting into college. But I do resonate with some of what is said, I wasn't that much cuddled as a kid, bulliying was very much a thing in schools back in the 2010's and I got to play outside a lot. What im interested about in this video is how life was witheout all the technology of the 2010's. Because I've never lived in a world witheout computers and video-games, witheout the internet, social-media and youtube. Heck, even HD is a thing I've known all my life, it just feels crazy to think even my parents didnt have those, just how recent it is feels weird.
And I see it changing too, how media is consumed, the rise of new technologies and questions, the world evolving and changing. These things felt like they've always been there and would always be, that cinema was big Hollywood movies like Marvel and Star Wars and that world peace was pretty much achieved in most countries and that climate change was in the far future. And now that I have lived long enough to see the world change around me I get to see just how recent those things are and how different the world I will see in 20 to 30 years can be. Growing up as gen Z, becoming an adult as gen Z is very weird, and incredubly incertain.
i feel bad for you zoomers, it's a very rough time to come up into adulthood. you guy's really did get shafted. as for what was life like prior to all the tech and constant access to the internet, all i can say is that people were more chill and didn't really care much about what other's lives and views were. everyone got along for the most part and lived their lives. we didn't have all the constant drama and outrage culture of today. reality tv shows, smart phones and the education system not teaching kid's to think critically but only through emotion has done a lot of damage, maybe even irreparable if i am so bold to say. freetrade being in the 80's really screwed with our economies here in the western world, outsourcing jobs for literal cheap slave labor in poorer countries, items were no longer made to last and so on. i remember back then if your laptop or your phone broke, you could easily repair those thing's on your own with no need to go out and buy something new or have to go to a repair shop. now, everything is made to last only for a short while and they make it so much of a hassle for one to repair their items that people are forced to go out and buy a replacement. hell, i even bought a cheap laptop last year with windows 11 on it, the thing could hardly run brand new out of the box. wiped it and installed linux and the laptop was able to run normally.
it's mind boggling to me that these thing's are allowed to be sold to people, that goes for most products out there today. peak tech was mid to late 2000's imo. after that, everything just started going downhill fairly fast, especially with social media, another major culprit in the degradation of society and people. all that did was turn people into self absorbed narcissist's trying to get as much attention as possible. it really is wild how thing's have changed so much from when i was a boy growing up, and non of it for the better imo. people just seem more cold and could care less about others, unless they can get "clout" from the internet. long story short, life was much better back then because people were more happy, we didn't have the constant bombardment of media all hours of the day via phones and such.
my best advice though is to just save up your money and try not to stress too much about thing's that are mostly out of your control and enjoy your youth while you have it. your 20's go by fast and hitting your 30's is a bit weird to say the least. really when you start to feel older, lel. anyway's, God bless and i hope you can carve a path out for yourself.
As a Gen Z i can absolutely agree to all the negative things you said about us. My generation is really weird and I hope gen alpha will grow up to be a good generation again.
Great video on old games
Like super Mario brothers
But pac man
Even Donkey kong
And play grounds parks were the best big tracker tires and slide …
But young people born 1990 and up to 2000 kids
But they will Learn new things because it’s a natural progression in life
Well take care
And omg your in trouble now for lol throwing snowballs at cars ah no big deal
It a Canadian thing lol
Even here in Alberta
"Younger millennials didn't get to experience the more difficult things. "Sorry my guy, but what are you on about. As a young millennial I was raised by boomers. I went through multiple financial crisises, a pandemic and growing up catering extremely critical boomer customers. Never gaining any approval or love by anyone. Then also being cussed out by gen z as well. Most young millennials don't own a house and nobody likes us. Due to the never ending cancel culture and gender wars we're unable to marry and thus also never purchase a house together either. Nothing has ever worked out smoothly, unless you knew somebody. All my older millennial cousins had it FAR better when there were still jobs and better paying jobs and they got absolutely babied by gen x and boomers. The young millennial was always the "Child, you know nothing." And it's funny you're saying that, because it's proving my point. And the older generations were so selfish to the point that now we don't have jobs or houses anymore. Who has had it worse? You or me?
This comment seems a little like victim wars, but honestly I can't be one to talk because I'm not from either of these generations.
At the very least I hope it still isn't too hard for you right now. :)