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In an ideal world, parents would all have good general knowledge and commom sense about video games.
Im not having a go at my parents here (im 19 and my ma and pa dont really care but are generally "well-up" on the video games market).
I am getting at the genaral parent population.
A few weeks ago I was in HMV and I see a kid and his dad looking at the PS2 games, the kid is looking at GTA3 and asking his dad if he can have it (the kid looked about 10). His dad said no, not because of the 18 rating but because he'd just spent a bucket load of money on a PS2 and a bunch of games already. Here i want to address the parents lack of care towards games as a medium - they are'nt just expensive kids toys anymore!
On that occasion I nearly said to the dad " look mate, whats that little red 18 sticker mean?". Dont get me wrong though - Im not the daily mail type, im usually against censorship.
On saturday, at the games section in Asda, I was perusing the gamecube bit and a little kid runs up grabs a copy of Mario Party 4 and takes it to his mum asking for it, she says no he puts it back. He then grabs a copy of The Lord of the Rings for the XBOX and asks his mum for the is "video".
heres the conversation between them I then overheard:
MUM: "its not a video, its a game for the game boy."
KID: "game boy? is it?"
MUM: holding XBOX game case, "erm, not game boy, pl...playstation, its for playstation, put it back."
All I am asking here is the woman actually use common sense and look at the thing in her hand. That kid is gonna grow up thinking everything is for game boy or playstation and may miss out on quality xbox and gamecube software.
So please mums, dads look at the games your kids want you to get them and pass suitable, sensible judgement on them before you speak/buy.
Thanks for listening.
Im not having a go at my parents here (im 19 and my ma and pa dont really care but are generally "well-up" on the video games market).
I am getting at the genaral parent population.
A few weeks ago I was in HMV and I see a kid and his dad looking at the PS2 games, the kid is looking at GTA3 and asking his dad if he can have it (the kid looked about 10). His dad said no, not because of the 18 rating but because he'd just spent a bucket load of money on a PS2 and a bunch of games already. Here i want to address the parents lack of care towards games as a medium - they are'nt just expensive kids toys anymore!
On that occasion I nearly said to the dad " look mate, whats that little red 18 sticker mean?". Dont get me wrong though - Im not the daily mail type, im usually against censorship.
On saturday, at the games section in Asda, I was perusing the gamecube bit and a little kid runs up grabs a copy of Mario Party 4 and takes it to his mum asking for it, she says no he puts it back. He then grabs a copy of The Lord of the Rings for the XBOX and asks his mum for the is "video".
heres the conversation between them I then overheard:
MUM: "its not a video, its a game for the game boy."
KID: "game boy? is it?"
MUM: holding XBOX game case, "erm, not game boy, pl...playstation, its for playstation, put it back."
All I am asking here is the woman actually use common sense and look at the thing in her hand. That kid is gonna grow up thinking everything is for game boy or playstation and may miss out on quality xbox and gamecube software.
So please mums, dads look at the games your kids want you to get them and pass suitable, sensible judgement on them before you speak/buy.
Thanks for listening.
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I bought a gamecube on the strength of nintendo as a brand name and i know what they're capable of.
cookie monster wrote:
> You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
I'd say about 70% of the population actually do that though. Think about it, many people don't buy that cheap Reebok "crap" or that "rubbishy" Ellesse, but do go for the top notch Nike stuff, and Adidas, etc. (Note, I am much like this, but, that's because I don't like the quality of most clothes, and I take about 4 hours to get a pair of trainers) etc, etc, etc.
> You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
I'd say about 70% of the population actually do that though. Think about it, many people don't buy that cheap Reebok "crap" or that "rubbishy" Ellesse, but do go for the top notch Nike stuff, and Adidas, etc. (Note, I am much like this, but, that's because I don't like the quality of most clothes, and I take about 4 hours to get a pair of trainers) etc, etc, etc.
cookie monster wrote:
> You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
No, buying it because she doesn't have a clue and is totally out of her depth, but believes this thing may be in the right vein for what her kid might want, but not knowing one from the other is recommended a PS2, say, by the helpful staff.
She would still leave clueless.
> You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
No, buying it because she doesn't have a clue and is totally out of her depth, but believes this thing may be in the right vein for what her kid might want, but not knowing one from the other is recommended a PS2, say, by the helpful staff.
She would still leave clueless.
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Assistants in game shops do try to punt the market leader ie PS2 or the technical best ie xbox and not the middle man ie gamecube.
When buying games im always asked when at the counter "do i want to pre-order generic ps2 game no 9904 or some xbox tosh?", Ive never been asked if I want to pre-order Gamecube games, even biggies like Mario Sunshine and Zelda.
When buying games im always asked when at the counter "do i want to pre-order generic ps2 game no 9904 or some xbox tosh?", Ive never been asked if I want to pre-order Gamecube games, even biggies like Mario Sunshine and Zelda.
Insane Bartender wrote:
> Not necessarily. Millions of people have bought PS2s "just
> because". The woman could have bought a first console on the
> advice of a store assistant. It doesn't follow that she is therefore
> well informed on the gaming community.
You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
> Not necessarily. Millions of people have bought PS2s "just
> because". The woman could have bought a first console on the
> advice of a store assistant. It doesn't follow that she is therefore
> well informed on the gaming community.
You mean buying it on the strength of the brand name? Perhaps.
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