Which Gen is Everyone From?

[HiroesX81]

That fun set of years before home computing was the norm, before cell phones were required by almost every employer, before schools demanded you have internet at home, before playing outside unsupervised was a crime.

When we'd go play football or basketball or baseball and then come back and play a nes or snes game about playing football or basketball or baseball.

And then oh god, everything exploded.

When you played video games with you friends and neighbors that came over to your own house cause either Genesis Does or Now youre playing with Power!

[HiroesX81]

This is true. Though that begs the question, what made you say Sinnoh?

All i know is Im from Pallet Town but my name isnt Ash

[HiroesX81]

Super Mario Brothers Generation for the Nes... that's right kids I'm Classically trained (even have the Atari 2600 under my belt)

I too trained under Koopas and Goombas in 8bit goodness

[HiroesX81]

I'm gen Sonic vs Mario, when arcades were the true test of skill, and when Capcom were making DLC before it was a thing now. We talking 12 Street Fighter 2's to the max cause Capcom couldn't or wouldn't count to 3 in the 90's.

#NeverForgetConsoleWars!

[Waterdesk]

Pretty normal. On average it seems people who play mmorpgs are in their mid 20's and up. You will find the zoomers and stuff mostly in things like Fortnite, Apex Legends, Rust, GTA online, etc..

You’re statement is pretty interesting. As a kid (early 2000s), I remember asking people how old they were while playing mmorpgs like runescape, FFXI, and WoW. The majority of responses were ages from 10-13; which was the same as me at the time. Now it seems like most people on mmorpgs are around their mid 20s or older. However, I only play ESO, SWTOR, and FFXIV now so there could be some sampling bias if the majority of younger gamers play some other mmorpg.

[Keridwyn]

NES was my console, the Gameboy with Tetris was my travel buddy, Rita Repulsa would have conquered the Earth except for some teenagers with attitude, and everywhere I currently look folks are trying to sell my childhood back to me with greater or lesser degrees of success.

[JunseiKei]

I'm whichever generation thinks everyone is only out for themselves, hisses at the sunlight and enjoys a good book in bed with hot tea on the nightstand with a black cat curled up next to me. And video games.


.... So Y?

[SamSmoot]

.... before playing outside unsupervised was a crime...

When we played outside, parents just told us to be home in time for dinner.
Born the same year as the transistor. Biggest multiplayer home game was Monopoly

[Thayos]

I'm a Xenial -- it's the micro-generation that spans the late 1970s (me!) through the early 1980s. We're unique because we had analog childhoods and digital adulthoods. I've seen others in this thread who almost certainly fall within that micro-gen as well.

[RitsukoSonoda]

When we played outside, parents just told us to be home in time for dinner.
Born the same year as the transistor. Biggest multiplayer home game was Monopoly

I played outside in a tropical rainforest full of dangerous insects, large venomous snakes, trees that had thorns, etc...

It was perfectly normal. We should ship all the kids out there to learn survival instinct and common sense the same way. Would probably have prevented things like kids thinking its a good idea to eat tide pods.