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How the Games We Play as Kids Shape Our Tastes

By Nadia Oxford

Video games, like so many things, can make an indelible impression on us early in life. Though we may not necessarily realize it, the games we love as kids can condition us to gravitate towards certain titles as adults. Many of us who have grown up alongside games since the days of the NES or Atari 2600 still love to experience the medium’s cutting edge. But sometimes it feels good to forego exposing ourselves to a new experience in favor of playing games that re-connect us with our roots.

The games industry has recently taken to defining gamers as “Core” and “Casual,” which is as useful as classifying movie-goers as “People Who Dig Explosions” and “People Who Dig the Weepy Stuff.” Realistically, the choices we made on the NES and further back has shaped us into a very diverse-and very lucky-generation of gamers.

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