john cabrera

owlpacino:

I think our generation was greatly affected by the unrealistic nature of our entertainment. And this is a good thing.
As kids, we mentally/emotionally invested in worlds that did not seem real at all. Video games, special effects in movies, and toys were suppose to be fantastical, forcing the imagination to activate.

This, to me, is where the 80’s paid off.

My little sister (born mid-90’s) watches MTV reality shows all day and most of her male friends play “Modern Warfare”.
She’s hardly able to read the first chapter of a book without checking to see if there is a movie version.

Give me Zelda any day.

Well, this current youth generation does have Harry Potter and Nintendo Wii.

But, yeah, I do think the goofy unrealistic nature of games like Zelda challenged young 80s minds to interpret those worlds in their own way. Whereas the ueber realistic look of today’s video games sort of spoon feeds that.

But I’m not really a believer in devolution, so I’m inclined to think there’s at least been a trade-off somewhere.