> You accuse this of being a paid plant because you can’t imagine that someone played different games than you as a child?!
I accuse them of making a very simplistic comparison against "old video games" while that person does not seem to have much exposure in terms of video games genres in the first place. Either they are ignorant or dishonest. It's difficult to be ignorant these days with the mass of information on the Internet.
The whole point of the article is that it's about the author's experience of video games compared to his son's. It's clearly not meant to be a comprehensive comparison of games of his generation and now.
I accuse them of making a very simplistic comparison against "old video games" while that person does not seem to have much exposure in terms of video games genres in the first place. Either they are ignorant or dishonest. It's difficult to be ignorant these days with the mass of information on the Internet.