touche. I had not considered that.

trade wars 2002 was the king of games

but there were some other good ones.

many many doors to open.

sadly this is true, and kids are just fucking dumber today than ever when the internet can connect them to any resource to learn about anything in seconds.

millenials can buy a raspberry pi for the price of a flip phone.

infinite potential restored.

I make awesome shit on raspberry pi's with python in minutes. I plan on teaching my kids that. some notables:

1. (just today) a wifi router with a 16x2 character LCD that reports the current BTC price from coinbase in CAD and USD
2. a car computer to play movies from a 2 tb drive and stream to multiple devices at the same time using minidlna. a status monitor on a 2" screen show's pepe plus CPU usage, wifi connections, movies streaming/mem etc.
3. a computer to help blind people see using sound.

python is fucking amazing.

pygame is an easy entrance to programming games on the raspberry pi.

To be fair, game dev environments are pretty difficult today if you discount the kid stuff.

but why not start them on the kid stuff?

I made a 4 player pong in high school on a 386.

All in basic. Given a tiny bit more time it would have even been a really good game instead of great for a HS student.

plagiarizing.

I use stack overflow examples to guide my code much of the time. I will always plagiarize or pay for a library if it saves me time, and the code is somewhat secure and designed to catch exceptions.

If I wrote everything from scratch I would never get anything done.