How To Teach Video Games To A Non-Gamer

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  @SwarmSSBM · 2 years ago (edited)

  Something to consider: When I was a kid, RC cars and helicopters were much more popular. Crashing wasnt humiliating, it was fun. I got to quickly take on multiple joysticks and immediately see its impact in the real world.

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  @kapzw · 2 years ago (edited)

  man I'm gonna miss matpat doing these videos, sad to see there's only 8 theories left. Thank you matpat for everything.

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  @badasfox2794 · 2 years ago

  Everyone remembers the game telling us to press R3, leaving us frantically searching the controller for a button you didn't even know existed

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  @katydid4509 · 1 year ago

  i know this video is over a year old and no one is going to see this, but i just wanted to say thank you<br><br>i’m 20 and have been a very casual gamer until now (eg wii, sims, mariokart, etc). i was just given a ps5 from someone who doesn’t use it anymore and i was so excited to play all my favorite games to watch! …and then i realized how hard it was to try to manage so many controls, move and move the camera, etc. i literally came back and referenced this video! thank y’all for helping gamers of all backgrounds💚💚

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  @theaonesucc3703 · 2 years ago

  “All right son, we’re at step 9, I’m going to teach you wave dashing in melee”

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  @xXBtr360Xx · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jFreGK27DA&amp;t=152">2:32</a> seeing the old intro after all these years &amp; the logo finally having a color for each channel really hit us hard.

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  @Gojirawars03 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I started on Wii, and let me tell you. Playing LEGO Star Wars at 5-6 years old was a mind-blowing experience. I honestly think the LEGO Games (at least the older classic ones) are pretty much the perfect way to introduce gaming to young kids. Challenging but still fair puzzles, relatively easy controls, plenty of enemies, and even though you can die, you don’t have to return to a checkpoint when you do. You just lose a bit of money and respawn right where you just died. Add in the goofy sense of humor and fun, no-dialogue cutscenes, and you have a perfect “Baby’s First Videogame.”

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  @Tr0lliPop · 2 years ago

  I never truly understood how complicated pressing two buttons at once could be until I was teaching a friend how to play a platformer and they were letting go of run before pressing jump

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  @ASTRAY-1304 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jFreGK27DA&amp;t=177">2:57</a> <br>From ruining gaming childhoods to building new ones...<br><br>Now THAT&apos;S character development.

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  @mitwhitgaming7722 · 2 years ago

  Shocked you didn&apos;t mention any of the older Lego games, especially the original Lego Star Wars. <br>The game has a fixed camera, and the player only has to worry about 2 buttons separately.

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  @TheAverageOtta · 2 years ago

  The perfect game I found to introduce my Mum to gaming was Little Big Planet which I feel gets overlooked a lot. It has all the tools to teach just about everything Matt went over, and with the level creation you can create a level to teach exactly what you need as well as customize the difficulty. You even have the stepping stone of going from 2D to not quite 3D with 3 rows of depth.

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  @Annakibloxk · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jFreGK27DA&amp;t=47">0:47</a> fruit ninja

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