The Video Game Generation Grows Up

MarchingAnts writes "The Gaming Generation: Once A Gamer, Always A Gamer has interviews with Gabe from Penny Arcade, best-selling science-fiction author John Scalzi, veteran games journalist and founder of gamerdad.com Andrew Bub, futurologist Dr. Michael Zey, and sociologist Dr. Steve Jones commenting on the phenomena of how video gamers are coping with balancing their hobby with marriages, careers, and how video games might affect families in the future. 'Mike Krahulik, better known to his legions of fans as Gabe, one-half of the team behind the gaming webcomic Penny Arcade, says that time is the biggest challenge in blending gaming and parenthood. "You just don't have as much time for gaming," he says, "when you're getting up every 30 minutes to change diapers and get thrown up"'"

Re:As a parent of 2...

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"I have a 2 year old and a newborn at home."

I'm about 6 months ahead of you with a 2 1/2 year old and a 6 month old at home. At your stage, I didn't play any games and barely watched TV. Now that we get proper sleep again, my wife or I may play a video game every now and then. I've been playing X-Men Legends lately and she's been playing Paper Mario. While one of us is playing, the other plays with/cares for the kids. When you have kids young enough to need constant attention, it's nice to have a break every once and a while and playing video games is a good way to take that break.

Both of the games I've picked up recently (X-Men Legends and Paper Mario) have frequent save points. That has really led to us playing more often since we can play for as long as we want (in 10-15 minute increments).

Re:Walt Disney...

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IIRC, the movie was made in the late 1950's or 1960's. The back seat was implied like the way many older movies implied that "something" goes on behind the bedroom door at night. If you knew, you knew; if not, you're find out eventually. I had a college English teacher who told the class that she had no idea what to do on her honeymoon since the movies never showed what happen and S-E-X was never openly discussed back then.