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For the last ten years, Andy Baio has been performing an experiment on his son. It is equal parts cruel and fascinating. Rather than let him play whatever video game he wanted, Baio made his boy work his way to modernity by playing through the history of video games chronologically. Starting with 1979's Galaxian.
The point was to let his son explore the history of the medium and how it has transformed over the decades, maybe giving him an appreciation of older (or newer but cruder) games that he might otherwise have dismissed as relics.
And what did they find? Well, not only has Eliot developed a strong taste for roguelikes, but he's also become frighteningly good at video games, to the point where he can complete Spelunky via hell and reach the Nuclear Throne.
Most important, though, is the fact that he can appreciate a game for what it is, not how much money was spent on it or how flashy it looks.
"Eliot's early exposure to games with limited graphics inoculated him from the flashy, hyper-realistic graphics found in today's AAA games", Baio writes. "He can appreciate retro graphics on its own terms, and focus on the gameplay."
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