Why the hell are 3-year-olds asking for consoles?

[King of Town]

I think when they are 3 years old they don't know what a ds is. the parents wrote the letter. There is a thing here where the radio stations give families their christmas wish, and every single one of them is a mother crying because she can't give her 3 year old the wii they can't live without. I think it is more for the parents somehow than the kids.

 

[Junzi Nicuzn]

Depends on the kid. I have a friend with a 3 year-old who plays the DS all the time. Have another friend with a 5 year-old daughter that is a Mario Kart fanatic. They may not play with a great degree of skill yet, but they aren't constantly driving into a wall either.

On the other hand I have a friend with a 4 or 5 year-old that can't really even talk, and I doubt he would have much luck with video games at this stage. All depends on the development level of the kids.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

When I was five, somebody gave us a really old Nintendo with a few games. (We didn't have cable at the time -- just a really old TV that mom had before I was born). Then it either broke or we had to sell it for food. Or she packed it away. Can't remember which. We were pretty poor back then.
Then we got shipped a computer (for some college course mom was taking at home), and I got into that, rest is history.
That woulda been 1997-98. Born in '92.

 

[lutzj]

We had no sugar with our tea, no milk...

You were lucky to have tea! Just a cracked cup...

Cups! We had to drink out of a rolled-up a newspaper...

Lucky! Once a week, if we were lucky, we would suck on a wet rag!

 

[Izipo]

Tell that to the young people today, they won't believe you.

 

[Lade]

I remember getting a gamecube, a xbox, and a playstation for my 6th birthday party

It stinks if your born on February 29th

(Not really, I'm pulling your leg)

 

[GenMarshall]

Pfft, I remember getting a NES when I was 6 . And that was back in 1989 .

 

[DJ Bonebraker]

Lishten up you whippershappers!

I didn't get my first video game system until I was in middle school, and that was an Atari 2600 (in 1991, no less!), and I had to buy that my own damn self! Kids these days are nothing but a bunch of spoiled brats, if you ask me.