Their first cellphone
on October 16, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: It's Pregnancy!
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
My kids started mastering Super Mario Bros when they were 4 or 5. When I was 4 or 5, I had to wait a few years for them to INVENT SUPER MARIO BROS
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“WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, WE HAD TO GO TO A *STORE* TO WATCH NEW MOVIES, AND THEY WERE ON DEGRADABLE MEDIA CALLED TAPES”
Hah! When I was that age, we watched whatever was on TV, all four or five channels.
I was six years old when the UK got its fourth TV channel.
Before that, I was too busy walking uphill in the snow to watch TV.
I’m constantly amazed at ALL of the media formats that have come and gone in my lifetime. Video alone is on its fourth generation. I’m not quite so amazed by the persistence of vinyl because that’s just the hipster’s tea ceremony.
More important question: How old are they when they get their first pair of Future Goggles?
My four year old has a tablet. It has an app called Elmo Goes to the Potty. I just felt I should share that.
I would have been all over that shit as a four-year-old.
…pun not intended, but what the hell I’ll go with it
Jokes on them by the time they learn how to walk everything will have internet haha. But seriously my nephew keeps a chargeable tablet with WiFi in a toy box at my mother’s house like it was nothing more than a toy you get from a happy meal.
And now they have these low-cost, square, screenless, foam, cell phones (and GPS) for 50 bucks specifically for little kids.
Do they make dash mounted phone holders for Power Wheels cars and the Cozy Coupe?
Big Hank energy here.
I’m pretty sure the first video game I played was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Genesis when I was about 5 or 6 years old, so that should give you a hint of how old I am. I suspect we got internet at my house later than most families did.
As first video games go, that’s a damn good one.
Sure, it’s not quite as good as S3&K, but I’m biased by having gotten into the series long after its heyday, when counting that as only one game (rather than the two it was sold as) was largely the accepted position in fandom. Though the pendulum may be swinging back in that regard…
My first video game was the Hobbit on the Apple IIc.
My family was early to get a PC but late to get a Nintendo. When we finally did, it came with the power pad and that Olympics game in addition to Super Mario and Duck Hunt.
Oh, the parents needs the children to have internet access. It’s the perfect threat to revoke it.