First off, I don’t want to imply that the children of today are all spoiled shitheads. We’d simply like to point out that if today’s youth were given the recreational tools we had while growing up, they’d be pretty bored.
Big Wheel – If you could list off the best moments in your life, getting a Big Wheel would be somewhere at the top. It wouldn’t rank as high as getting a car or losing your virginity, but it would still easily make the top 10.
Today’s Replacement – The Wii Racing Wheel.
Rolling around outside really can’t compete with the excitement a five year old can get via any Wii racing game whilst gobbling down a bag of these.
Sling Shot – The wrist rocket used metal, plastic, and rubber to combine destruction with fun. Having a wrist rocket put you leaps and bounds in front of your buddies who had just the regular sling shot. You could spend an entire afternoon shooting shit with this bad boy and not get bored.
Today’s Replacement – The paint ball gun eliminates the labor it takes to make an object projectile through the air. The down side is that it’s pretty messy. However, even though taking a paintball to the dome isn’t fun, it’s a lot safer than being blasted by a rock.
a paintball shot to the ear. – Watch more
In a made up statistic, 9 out of 10 teenagers preferred the blast of a paintball to that of a rock from a sling shot.
Nintendo – For many of us, the NES is where it all started when it comes to gaming. Hours upon hours of hour lives got flushed down the 8 bit toilet while playing this masterpiece.
Today’s Replacement – Putting a Nintendo in front of a kid today would almost be a mean joke. In fact, if I wanted to be a real prick I’d put a kid in time out by making him save the princess. The Xbox 360 is to Nintendo like Katie Couric is to Barbara Walters. Newer, nicer looking, more expensive, and gets far more attention.
Rubik’s Cube – This awesome toy was invented in 1974 and remained a smash hit all through out the 80′s. Simple design, but not easy to conquer.
Today’s Replacement – A teenager can’t be seen with bulky entertainment accessories. However the pure genius of the Rubik’s cube goes unmatched – Thus, we bring you the Rubik’s iPhone app.
Journal/Diary – Guys don’t write in diaries because that would be a serious loss of man points. We do however remember how important this garbage was to our sisters and female class mates. Ever steel a diary? I have, and I will tell you right now that the beat down I received from my sister was one that I will never forget. A diary was a book of blank pages where girls left the most private of private thoughts. In 1992, a 15 year old might write the following in her journal:
Dear Diary, Mark is really cute and tonight we kissed for the first time. I hope he asks me to the dance!
Today’s Replacement – Facebook/Myspace/Twitter etc
Food for thought: We can look back now and say “damn I was easily entertained.” But were we? Not really, those items and activities were the norm for society – In 20 years from now the Xbox 360 will be a sad joke, and a 15 year old girl with bra/panty pics on her Myspace would be considered prude for not showing nipple + snapper.
Link of the day – If Gladiators played beer pong (photoshop contest)
March 27, 2009
#1
They now have a 7×7 rubics cube so maybe todays youth would like it
March 27, 2009
#2
hahaha that facebook part his hilarious. but seriously all people who use social networking need to get a life.
March 27, 2009
#3
haha that’s funny and very true. nice nintendo comparison with the barbara walters yikes! i’m a kid that had an 8bit nintendo growing up.. i’m not barbara walters old yet! no offense barbara.. aging is natural
March 27, 2009
#4
“The Xbox 360 is to Nintendo like Katie Couric is to Barbara Walters. Newer, nicer looking, more expensive”
Being more expensive shouldn’t be added in a list of good features.
There are still many of us who would not see it as a punishment to be made to play Mario all over again. Infact, I still have my NES and my SNES, and a Wii and pretty much every other Nintendo console to date, and still go back to playing it. Being a 15 year old girl, that sounds incredibly pathetic probably. “But” I’m getting a 360 as soon as I have the money.
March 27, 2009
#5
Actually… kids today would love nothing more than a shiny new Nintendo DS.. and they even play the same game showed in the picture above.. but now it’s called: “New Super Mario Bros”.. adults too…haha
March 27, 2009
#6
Well this article is stupid, small plastic bike things are still around for toddlers + ,Sling shots are still around and I know where to buy cheap kids ones heck I remember just making them out of plastic bands and fingers more than anything. and rubiks cubes are still around, kids cant all have iphones.
March 27, 2009
#7
It’s STEAL not steel.
March 27, 2009
#8
A Diary is private, and social networking is very public. A better modern version of a diary would be a text file on an encrypted partition. Or for those who prefer touch, they still sell pink pen and paper diaries, and girls still use them.
March 27, 2009
#9
This is retarded, Nintendo is still popular with kids and selling more than the Xbox 360 right now.
March 27, 2009
#10
I work with school age children in a very affluent area and they all have DS’s, Wii’s, PSP, 360′s, etc., etc. etc. However, our program has a SNES and the kids love it. There is nothing better than Donkey Kong or Mario on a SNES. So nostaligic, but fun the same.
March 27, 2009
#11
Fuck you! Nintendo is the best fucking console to ever fucking exist you douchebag.
I would take a fucking hammer to your fucking head for comparing the nintendo to a fagbox anyday,
If I ever have a kid I will get him a nes and he will be a better person for it, you can get your kid a shitty xbox and he will gorw up to rape someone.
March 27, 2009
#12
That someone will be you, and as hes holding your face in the pillow (as you bite it) he’ll be like “remember when you made an e-tuff comment on my dad’s site back in 2009? Now who’s the bitch!?”
March 27, 2009
#13
I misspelled grow, so there, asshole.
March 27, 2009
#14
Funny, but only true b/c parents don’t give their kids these toys anymore. I still have my SNES and yes, my kids play on it. They also play on the 360 and PS2. They have a rubik’s cube and my ADHD kid loves it. My older brothers had wrist rockets and paintball guns, so my kids won’t be getting those anytime soon. My brothers also stole my diary. It was illustrated. Therapy is ongoing.
March 27, 2009
#15
PissedOffNintendo, that was uncalled for. You parents told you to play with the Nintendo, not fuck it. Next, you’ll be saying the atari was the next best thing to the goats in your backyard.
March 27, 2009
#16
Are you retarded? Kids will always love the Big Wheel.
March 27, 2009
#17
I loved my Big Wheel! We used to smash them into each other all the time. And my daughter recently got a Rubik’s Cube. Know who’s addicted to it? Me! So close to figuring it out…
March 27, 2009
#18
What!? This list is wack. The most used toy on our street is our fleet of used and abused big wheels (with wrist rockets mounted on the handlebars of course). And although NES is expired, all those Nintendo classics are all over the portables and/or laid the foundation for the side scroller you kid is probably playing on their phone or iTouch.
March 27, 2009
#19
It’s two dimensional?
March 27, 2009
#20
Actually, having worked with children, they are all entertained by the simplest of things, even good old fashioned rubber balls. Also, we only had an N64 and an SNES, and they would literally fight over both. Oh, and who got to be Mario, of course.
March 27, 2009
#21
Worst. List. Ever.
March 27, 2009
#22
What is based on?
March 28, 2009
#23
Hey, the original NES is still cool.
March 29, 2009
#24
These ‘adorable darlings’ will go out and buy iHomes. Bless them!
March 30, 2009
#25
Guarantee the idiot that wrote this has no kids of his own. I don’t understand how this got digg’d up so high. You sir are a dumbass.
March 30, 2009
#26
So says the person commenting on some blog with a bunch of strangers.
April 13, 2009
#27
These ‘adorable darlings’ will go out and buy iHomes
June 4, 2009
#28
Hey hey now, I’m 15 and I LOVE the NES. I have my own and many games to go with it.
Some kids today are still awesome. =P