Why is this so common?

15-30 is second childhood

>>714103190 (OP)
North American is full of faggots that desperately try to argue that they are better than everyone else even though they have nothing at all

I was born in 96 but I have older siblings so I played NES and SNES and GB games growing up, as well as later PS1, PS2, and GBA/DS games

The problem is you have to define what it means to "grow up with". I was playing those first games at 5/6 years old but when I was 11 in 2007 I was technically still growing up.

>>714103190 (OP)
What's millenials again? I was born in 88 and only played Fusion among those games

>>714103190 (OP)
>>714103190 (OP)
Some of us weren't poor, pic related.

>Virtual Boy
yeah fucking right
I tried that out at a Toys R Us once and even as a retarded child I knew that shit sucked

>>714103637
Also from that pic I only played Mario Land and Emerald.

I also don't give a shit what generation I technically fall into

>>714103190 (OP)
"Zillennials" aren't a thing

>>714103190 (OP)
I was 13 years old when Emerald came out, that's what I grew up playing with.

>>714103190 (OP)
>>714103190 (OP)
unreal tournament came out in 99 i was born in 89. It only dawned on my later in life that some guy got pissed off by being part of a monster kill of a player named "mypoopisbig"

>>714103190 (OP)
Virtual boy is a fictional console

>>714103637
yeah i was born in 94 but all the old, preowned cheap shit that my broke family could afford would make you think i was born in like 79

>>714103190 (OP)
>early 2000s and suddenly minecraft out of nowhere

>>714103706
The PS2 was still outselling the 360 and PS3 in mid 2008.

>>714103637
I started with 6th gen and played them the most at around 3-7 years old so to me they're the most formative gaming experiences as they touched me earlier. At later ages you start to lose the 'magical' goggles.

>>714103190 (OP)
89 millennial here, i grew up mostly with the ps1 and n64.

>>714103190 (OP)
pic, me when 12

>>714103837
>that 92anon who wasn't sentient from ages 5 to 9 and has no memory of it (he has a goldfish brain)

>>714103965
I've been seeing a lot of people here saying Minecraft is a millennial game so I understand why it's in the pic

Emerald released 2004. It's a millennial game.

>>714104550
2005 in America. People don't immediately drop a game after it comes out either. Zillennial game. A lot of millennials aged out of their childhoods by then.

>>714103190 (OP)
Millennials is a group that spans 15 years. The oldest millennials grew up on the NES and Atari. Later ones grew up on the PS2 and GameCube. It also depends on when your parents got you a system. I was born in 1987 and my brother was 1991. Our first system was a Genesis that we got Christmas of 1994. In essence, my brother was 3 when he got video games and I was 7. If I had been a younger brother (say if my 1982 born cousin was my older brother) there could have been the potential for me to have "owned" an NES from the age of 2, by nature of an older brother owning it.

>>714103190 (OP)
Super Mario Land was a good game

>>714104886
The latest millennials grew up on 6th gen, as did the earliest zoomers. Similar with late gen X'ers and early milllennials. The mostly-millennial consoles are moreso 4th and 5th gen consoles. This is why 6th gen consoles are mostly ZILLENNIAL and 3rd gen is XENNIAL. 7th gen and 8th gen are pure zoomer, and I guess 9th gen is zalpha(?).

Not really taking teenage years/adolescence into account with this list.

1st and 2nd gen - X
3rd gen - Xennial
4th gen - Millennial
5th gen - Millennial
6th gen - Zillennial
7th gen - Zoomer
8th gen - Zoomer
9th gen - Zalpha

>>714103190 (OP)
I like how your example of millennial games are mario land and uhhhhhh 4 AVGN videos.

>>714105264
You only know Superman 64 from AVGN? That's one of the most infamously bad games of all time, right up there with ET.

>>714103190 (OP)
No i'm pretty sure I grew up starting with the bottom when I was very young and the top was coming out when I was still a kid.

>>714105431
And when were you born?

>>714105312
yeah its a big coincidence its up there with the virtual boy, a system literally noone owned but has a popular AVGN video, Dr Jekyll, a game noone owned but has a popular AVGN video, and bugs bunny, a game some people owned but has a popular AVGN video

>>714105483
95

>>714105504
Then you're on the cusp of millennial/zoomer.

>>714103638
Started at mid 80s. Would've been in their mid-to-late teens come the turn of the millennium.

>>714105576
still Millennial

>>714105504
That's like the last year of millennials.

>>714103190 (OP)
I am a millennial and my first game was A Link to the Past, but I also "grew up" playing Quake 2, Halo 1-3, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Skies of Arcadia, Fallout 3, Half Life 2, Metal Gear Solid, MediEvil, Star Craft. My childhood did not last a single year and video games advanced very rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s. My childhood spanned three, arguably four generations of consoles.

People often overlook how much older siblings fit into the equation. You would think someone born in 2003 would grow up in their early years with the Wii, PS3, or 360 but if they have a sibling that's 6 years older than them they likely had a sixth gen console as well. If you have a sibling who's 10 years older than you then you basically had a library of games going back at least a console generation and a half. So someone born in 2001 after 9/11 could have had access to an n64 and played Mario 64 and OOT growing up.

I know it's a bait image but obviously childhood spans more than 5 years. I was born in 91 and my "childhood consoles" are firmly 4th gen to 6th gen, and including up to DS. I played all of those games in the top except the shitty SpongeBob one, but also got started with Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario Kart.
Technically I grew up with the 7th gen too, but I was a late teen by that point so you won't see me arguing that as strongly.

>>714106559
This. Does OP not realize late millennials were 8-10 when the top games came out?

>>714103190 (OP)
WHAT THE FUCK IS A ZILLENIAL

>>714106703
Literally me fr fr

>>714106559
>>714106668
If late millennials get to claim 6th gen, then so do early zoomers off the same logic.

>>714106339
So going off of this, 2001fags are expected to be the last of 6th gen kiddies and 2003 is where it starts sliding into pure zoomzoom territory?

>>714103190 (OP)
I played both, I just don't talk about the Virtual Boy

>>714103190 (OP)
I haven't heard a single millennial talk about the shit on top except for GameCube and Minecraft.
For the GameCube, it usually isn't nostalgia, they're usually shitting on it. I think I played like three games on it (SA2B, Melee, GNT4). It had to compete with the PS2, which is the greatest console ever. That being said, it definitely is a millennial console, since it came out when the average millennial was 13 and the average zoomer wasn't born yet. Calling the GameCube a zoomer console is like calling the NES a millennial console.
For Minecraft, I remember playing the alpha or beta in like 2010. I thought it was neat, but couldn't imagine playing it for more than a week. I couldn't believe it took off like it did. I'm totally willing to give the game to zoomers since the target audience is like 10-year olds.

>>714107454
Minecraft's target audience wasn't 10 year olds in 2009.

>>714107454
>>714103190 (OP)
Also the only thing from the bottom I played was Super Mario Land, which is a decent game with great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUm56MFZ3uw

>>714104098
You don't start forming memories until you're 12 retard

I enjoyed the top when I was in university and have enough money to buy myself any games I wanted

I enjoyed the bottom growing up because it was all we had and was miles better than the old DOS and mid 90s Mac shit

>>714103190 (OP)
Do you think 30 year olds had a virtual boy in their crib?

>>714104550
>>714104809
Emrald is the first of the Zllennial Pokemon game trilogy and the last of the Millennial ones.
By that I mean that most people who played pokemon were into it for 2-3 gens growing up before life pulled them away. Many eventually come back to it once they are older but there is a gap.

For Millennials Gen 3 was the last one you could get away with playing without looking like a total baby but even then many of the cohort had already moved on.
Likewise the Zllennial childhood games were Gens 3-5 with 3 being the one you played as a hand me down or if your parents could afford to buy a 6 year old a GBA, 4 being the Core one played by by kids aged 7-10, and gen 5 being the latecomer where it was still fine if you had it but most kids had moved on by then.

I grew up playing megadrive, gameboy games, some snes at someone else's home and then ps1 and n64.
It's just that I kept playing games later on. And in my mid teens I was playing gamecube and gba games. And around that time, I bought a DS. And then I kept playing games. And I kept playing games and I kept playing games. And...

>>714103190 (OP)
What matters is:
4th, 5h, 6th generation of vgs = peak
7th generation = worst

>>714106895
Pretty much, most people place 2004 as the cutoff point because after that there is a chance you were raised as an Smartphone/iPad baby as the yeas go on, which is a fundamentally different existence than getting a tablet at age 10.

>>714106895
I was born in 2005 but probably played the GC more than any later gen consoles despite having access to those too. That's something of an outlier case but my point is that what matters here is less someone's actual birth year and more so the birth year of a household's oldest child.

>>714103190 (OP)
I was born in '90 so I pretty much experienced SNES-PS2 while still in elementary and middle school, with the next gen bring high school days. It felt pretty peak at the time, at least for a fucking nerd

>>714108629
The 7th gen was fine is a downgrade for the first half of its lifecycle. But everything past 2010 or so was all the passable bad ideas of the first half boiling over.

>>714106787
>claim
Anon, it's all made-up marketing bullshit. I wasn't thinking about these fictitious generations that hadn't even been invented yet when I received a GCN for Christmas in 20001 and played Luigi's Mansion. I was literally 10 years old. Anyone who was alive and playing games at the time gets to "claim" them.

>>714103190 (OP)
I grew up on the original GB and the Sega Genesis

>>714108982
Fair enough, the gen had a good amount of stuff in 2005/2009. After that, portable consoles carried it hard for a few years.

>>714103190 (OP)
What counts as Alphacore?

>>714107727
I have a few memories from when I was 3 years old, and I'm 33 now. Several from 4 and plenty from 5+.

I still mostly played the top games, only played the bottom ones a few times when I was too young to actually be any good at them.

Why is it that my childhood in my head is up to around the time I was 6 or 7

>>714112402
That's when you were molested.