So think about this you are 4 years outdated and your Dad who you’ve got identified from the time you have been born arms you a controller…its video video games you assume. But this performs one thing totally different…retrogames.

That’s precisely what Andy Baio’s son, Eliot skilled when his father determined that his schooling in life and in video games (which you may argue is likely one of the identical) was going to start out in the beginning..or fairly shut within the historical past of videogames. And why not we ask ourselves right here at GamesYouLoved? (we’re biased!).  

This is nearer to a actuality than you assume…like historical past at college which frequently begins with prehistory, to then Egyptian and Roman and so forth..I feel we have now one thing right here. And even literature – return to the Chaucer days fairly than the trendy stuff to grasp the place writing and literarature/poetry all got here from.

It’s all changing into clear to us know why Andy Baio did this…and the way Eliot will profit. Start in the beginning/ the previous and also you perceive the current day. But even have alot of enjoyable doing it. So at 4 years outdated Eliot began with Galaxian (1979), Rally-X (1980), Bosconian (1981), Dig Dug (1982), and naturally, Pac-Man (1980) and three sequels, Super Pac-Man (1982), Pac-Man Plus (1982), and Pac & Pal (1983). Pretty cool. Within weeks Eliot was beating his Dad’s excessive scores..like a Dad on the Baseball sport Andy was starting to get pleasure from this as a lot as his son!

And it progressed…

By age 5, Eliot might beat some components of moderately-difficult platformers like Super Mario 3. By age 6, Eliot was beating whole video games on his personal. Eliot completed The Legend of Zelda on his personal, after which completed the very troublesome second quest with some mapping help.

This is sounding all fairly superb..I guess most of you now (like us) are on textual content, electronic mail or the telephone calling our Dads to say…why could not you be extra like this!!? It received even higher…Eliot went from technology to technology of console..regularly bettering..getting higher and beating his Dad and finishing video games of their entirety. To NES, SNES and N64. By the time he turned 7, Eliot had collected each star in Super Mario 64. That’s spectacular.

So now Eliot has caught up with the present technology. He performs video games on trendy consoles and tablets but he is aware of the place they got here from as he has skilled it rising up.In a unique period possibly – however similar to his Dad, Andy Eliot shares one factor which means alot. He loves video video games and that is the best factor right here. Even cooler is that he loves taking part in them along with his Dad. 🙂

Follow Andy Baio on Twitter for extra updates on the story or his personal expertise information as he is a really cool dude! Click right here: Andy Baio on Twitter

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