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This is me helping my toddler learn to play video games with Donkey Kong Country and SMW (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My daughter learned to jump because she learned she could walk over and hit the spacebar and see immediate feedback on almost every game we played, but at the time I was playing through one of the Tomb Raider games so I'd relatively frequently walk away with the game unpaused. Then she connected the dots of what she saw on screen and tried repeating the motions she saw Laura doing and did her first jumps mimicking what she saw on screen.

So in summary, Laura Croft taught my daughter how to jump.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

And people say video games aren't educational

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Zelda taught me how to read. Or, more accurately, I learned to read so that I could play Ocarina of Time and know what the hell I was doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know why but this story gives me the warm and fuzzies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Because it's a cute story

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Five minutes out of Vault 76, my level 1 ass encounters a power armored level 270 who waves before continuing to stomp in a different direction.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

One big thing from reddit I miss is Sr. Grafo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Why, back in my day, kids got a Nintendo with Super Mario Brothers and no manual!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Actually, I feel like back in the day we actually got manuals with tons of story content and artwork and such. Game manuals seem to have mostly fallen to the wayside now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got my NES and games used, so I didn't get any manuals. It took 10-year-old me forever to realize that I wasn't supposed to shoot the unarmed targets that popped up in Robocop 2's shooting range, and I never did figure out what the goal of Fester's Quest was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Because one of the best things about raising kids is sharing the things you love with your kids

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

This was me showing my daughter how to play Morrowind in TES3MP.