American Andy Bayo (Andy Baio) put the experience over the son Eliot, born in 2004. When the child was 4 years old, he began to acquaint him with video games in chronological order, starting with the hits of the 80's.

An avid gamer Bayo hoped that this may help Elliot to make a better understanding about the history of games. He was afraid that if the son will start with the news, you won't be interested in an earlier and less graphically flawless works.

Among the first Bayo redoil Eliot space shooter Galaxian (1979), as well as the traditional editions of Pac-Man games on the voracious ball, which runs through the dungeon, dodging enemies, the ghosts. Having ascertained that her son was seriously they got carried away, he continued the experiment.

Within 4 years Eliot initially with the help of his father, and then independently passed a landmark game for retro consoles and PC, released in the 80-s and 90-that is, in the end, his father offered him the game, released in the year of his birth, for example, Katamari Damacy, in which you must roll the whole world into a giant ball.

In the experiment, as found Bayo, Eliot was particularly fond of the roguelike genre (hero exploring dungeons, which are generated randomly). Among other things he began to play very smartly. For example, he managed to reach the end in is famous for its complexity indie hit Spelunky, even to cope with the most difficult area of Hell. But most importantly, according to Bayo, is that Eliot had learned to appreciate the game not for the graphics, and retroceding it is discouraging.
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