{"id":17151,"date":"2025-01-08T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/replaying-games-from-my-past-with-my-young-children-has-been-surreal-and-transformative\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T14:38:50","slug":"replaying-games-from-my-past-with-my-young-children-has-been-surreal-and-transformative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/replaying-games-from-my-past-with-my-young-children-has-been-surreal-and-transformative\/","title":{"rendered":"Replaying games from my past with my young children has been surreal \u2013 and transformative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing my kids to games like Link\u2019s Awakening has given me a whole new perspective on these old favourites and made me excited for what new video game adventures we\u2019ll have together in the future<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to some distinctly Scottish weather over the holidays, my family and I ended up celebrating Hogmanay at home rather than at the party we\u2019d planned to attend. My smallest son\u2019s wee pal and his parents came over for dinner, and when the smaller members of our group started to spiral out of control around 9pm, we threw them a little midnight countdown party in Animal Crossing.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I played Animal Crossing was in the depths of lockdown. Tending my island paradise helped me cope while largely imprisoned in a 2.5 bedroom basement flat with a baby, a toddler and a teenager. (I was far from the only one \u2013 the National Videogame Museum <a href=\"https:\/\/animalcrossingdiaries.thenvm.org\/\">compiled an archive<\/a> of people\u2019s Animal Crossing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it\u2019s evident that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/mar\/21\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-helped-us-escape-national-videogame-museum\">a lifeline for many<\/a>.) Our guests had brought their family Switch, and we set up the kids with their little avatars so they could join the animals\u2019 New Year party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jan\/08\/pushing-buttons-hogmanay-playing-games-with-my-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1d69eadf46421e3d983828ef87aabf44f10a2688\/67_0_1200_720\/master\/1200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=088ff5ae1757c57a3b76425b61d21271\" title=\"Replaying games from my past with my young children has been surreal \u2013 and transformative\" \/>Introducing my kids to games like Link\u2019s Awakening has given me a whole new perspective on these old favourites and made me excited for what new video game adventures we\u2019ll have together in the future<br \/>\nThanks to some distinctly Scottish weather over the holidays, my family and I ended up celebrating Hogmanay at home rather than at the party we\u2019d planned to attend. My smallest son\u2019s wee pal and his parents came over for dinner, and when the smaller members of our group started to spiral out of control around 9pm, we threw them a little midnight countdown party in Animal Crossing.<br \/>\nThe last time I played Animal Crossing was in the depths of lockdown. Tending my island paradise helped me cope while largely imprisoned in a 2.5 bedroom basement flat with a baby, a toddler and a teenager. (I was far from the only one \u2013 the National Videogame Museum compiled an archive of people\u2019s Animal Crossing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, and it\u2019s evident that it was a lifeline for many.) Our guests had brought their family Switch, and we set up the kids with their little avatars so they could join the animals\u2019 New Year party. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing my kids to games like Link\u2019s Awakening has given me a whole new perspective on these old favourites and made me excited for what new video game adventures we\u2019ll have together in the future Thanks to some distinctly Scottish weather over the holidays, my family and I ended up celebrating Hogmanay at home rather &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/08\/replaying-games-from-my-past-with-my-young-children-has-been-surreal-and-transformative\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Replaying games from my past with my young children has been surreal \u2013 and transformative<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}