This dad started with the Atari 2600 and introduced his son born in 2004 to a new console generation every few months

I'm definitely going to raise my kid on older games (maybe not the Atari 2600 per se, but same idea). Newer games don't teach you how to think or persevere, but adjust feed your dopamine receptors so you'll keep buying the next game.

Look at Pokémon. Green / Red / Yellow: tough as shit. Grinded my Pokémon so they'd level up so I could beat the gym boss; and learned that some strategies were better or worse against various problems - ie. certain types of Pokémon were better against other types. Now? You can walk into a gym with a level 3 Magikarp and win the game.

There are some exceptions like Dark Souls / Elden Ring, bbuutt the general trend for the industry is to make the games trivial, flashy lights, and include day 1 DLC for all that mmoonneeeyyy

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lol This is my plan, but with emulators
I'm definitely going to raise my kid on older games (maybe not the Atari 2600 per se, but same idea). Newer games don't teach you how to think or persevere, but adjust feed your dopamine receptors so you'll keep buying the next game.
Look at Pokémon. Green / Red / Yellow: tough as shit. Grinded my Pokémon so they'd level up so I could beat the gym boss; and learned that some strategies were better or worse against various problems - ie. certain types of Pokémon were better against other types. Now? You can walk into a gym with a level 3 Magikarp and win the game.
There are some exceptions like Dark Souls / Elden Ring, bbuutt the general trend for the industry is to make the games trivial, flashy lights, and include day 1 DLC for all that mmoonneeeyyy