It looks like most people here is over 40? Noone (no matter which age) that didn't start using computers until the nineties? And absolutely no millenials here?
Interesting if that were the case.
No, several old-timers here have mentioned using Macs from 1979 & Commodore 64s from 1984.
Anyone else start out on a 166mhz pentium?
My first job was a point on the early n86's when chips were sx or dx (internal maths co processor)
Ofc years before I had all the same stuff mentioned here.
A spectrum that crashed if you touched the keyboard etc.
First game experience was a thing like big mac at an uncles house, it was a text driven game.
Did all those gaming sessions turn me brainy? its problem solving.
I was trying to keep my kids away from gaming too early, but now I have seen how quick they learnt to solve the puzzles. I am changing my mind.
Hand eye coordination, trying things that might work? all good eh?
I'm thinking of keeping mine away from schools and the internet while leaving games open. Of course, since they wouldn't know any better there'd only be a handful of games for them to play until they've matured enough to just let them loose online.
With the right games you're definitely bound to get more brainy though, my brother hasn't played in a try-hard kind of way as I have and there are marked differences between the two of us as a result.
But that's mostly down to attitude I would say (which I got from specific games that I didn't want to put down but that required you to keep trying to figure out how things work). So as long as a person is encouraged (through whatever means) to think up different scenarios and to compare them it'll most likely become second nature into adulthood.
