Nintendo History Class
I thought you'd all enjoy this, so I'm going to share my story with you.
My mother runs a daycare at an arts school, the kids range from 8 years old to 13. Every once in awhile I will go in, play with the kids, talk to them etc. I always talk video games with them and they love it.
Now because it's an arts school they do arts based activities: drawing, dance, music, etc. After school all the girls usually partake in extra dance classes and the boys in the daycare are boooored.
So I decided to pitch an extra video game "class" to the parents, to go in and teach the history of video games and go through it all. They loved the idea, they loved the kids playing games that WEREN'T COD4 and they loved seeing the games that some of them played, being played by their kids. It was the first time ever some of these kids had played the first mario, or even heard of where Yoshi came from.
Here are some pictures:
My mother runs a daycare at an arts school, the kids range from 8 years old to 13. Every once in awhile I will go in, play with the kids, talk to them etc. I always talk video games with them and they love it.
Now because it's an arts school they do arts based activities: drawing, dance, music, etc. After school all the girls usually partake in extra dance classes and the boys in the daycare are boooored.
So I decided to pitch an extra video game "class" to the parents, to go in and teach the history of video games and go through it all. They loved the idea, they loved the kids playing games that WEREN'T COD4 and they loved seeing the games that some of them played, being played by their kids. It was the first time ever some of these kids had played the first mario, or even heard of where Yoshi came from.
Here are some pictures:
Comments
thats awesome dude! i think its F'd up, all the stuff this younger generation is missing out on. the games and cartoons i grew up on dont even compare to whats out there today
Agreed!
I don't mean to sound bad, but whats with all the Asian kids?
Zapper flush to the screen, just like I've alwasy tought em'.
That's awesome man. Good for you.
I don't mean to sound bad, but whats with all the Asian kids?
Those kids are absolutely enraptured. Classic stuff
Ya it was awesome, you could have yelled "FIRE!" and they wouldn't have moved. here's pictures of them playing.
By the way, were they doing the thing where they go to jump or move, but move their whole arms (or bodies) along with the controller? I always found that funny and my little nephew always does it haha.
~~NGD
I have young cousins at the ages of 7-12 and they call the old school games crap, trash and etc. I be telling them they don't know what they missed out when they weren't even born yet.
And is it just me or is one of the kids in the 6th picture look a little old to be in day care?
Nice tat by the way.