Tag: video games
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A creative childhood? It’s about time
Ross Barkin ponders what kids of today lack compared to their 20th century predecessors: When I consider the geniuses of that era—or any, really, before the last ten years or so—I think of time. Talented children, until the incursion of the smartphone and immersive videos games, had much of it. One big reason for this:…
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It’s a me, Super Mario on N64
Recently my father-in-law unearthed my wife’s old Nintendo 64 console, which was accompanied by the Super Mario cartridge. I was skeptical it would still work after all these years, but we plugged it in and it fired up like a charm. I didn’t have video game consoles at home growing up, so my exposure to…