Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia
That is something ive thought about. You cant really have nostalgia for things today because theyre either A, not physical things anymore, or B, locked in walled gardens and shutdown servers .
Im sure kids will lament the loss of their bangin 2026 spotify playlist that in 2050 costs an extra $67 a month to access your “20s nostalgia mix”, and all their game servers shutting down; they may try to cobble together a server (from obsolete data center parts) to play some old school retro Arc Raiders until the AI surveillance botnet targets them and fines them 1000 social credits for not buying season 38 of fortnite (world leader legendary edition!)
Did I miss anything 😄
My nephew wants to play Roblox but we won’t let him. However I have a Minecraft server that we can control and it’s been running for longer than he’s been alive. So with any luck we should be able to keep the map/game for a while longer.
But I also realized what you’re saying when he was watching YouTube videos. When I was a kid I was watching cartoons and kids shows that now I can simply stream/download and rewatch. It’s however going to be much more difficult to do with random videos on YouTube.
How do long running Minecraft servers like yours handle updates? Do you need to delete and re-generate chunks somehow, to get new modern bits of the world?
Minecraft is also fairly popular and will definitely be available
Never be too sure about “will definitely be avalible”. Microsoft/Mojang is doing evreything in their power to lock minecraft down and end the days of mods, backward support, and buy once own forever.
And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Revisiting your childhood memories can be quite painful.
I’m looking at you, Robotech ;_;
“Kids these days” have all the best toys/games. It’s been true for like 100 years now.
Something better will replace Roblox. It’s as sure as taxes.
Yes, and? The point is that unlike the physical media of previous generations, these modern “games” won’t be archivable and playable when they’re older. That’s irregardless of the game, Roblox is just used as a (very good) example.
Something will replace Roblox and its our responsibility to make sure that thing is FOSS/Fedi based.
I don’t understand Roblox. Wasn’t it a way to put things together and program them? How did it become a place for pedos to groom kids?
Wasn’t it a way to put things together and program them?
Yes, aimed at kids from the get go.
How did it become a place for pedos to groom kids?
When you make a platform targeted specifically at kids, they inevitably come. When you don’t treat it like a problem, even more of them come.
But what is the medium for interaction with the kids? This seems like a game that could be offline. Is there some sort of “social” aspect to it?
If I’m not mistaken, it runs straight off the browser, so no need to download anything. You can easily browse through games (or “experiences”, as they’re called) and join in.
It’s very social because every game is multiplayer by default. If you ever played or heard of Second Life or VR Chat, it’s not too different from them.
I suppose some of its games could damn well be run offline and locally, but that’d be bad for profits.
Ah, ok. And I guess banning pedos is bad for profits. Sorry, kids!
The Internet killed nostalgia.
The before Internet time was the time when everyone caught onto fads together because we were all marketed to the same way and by the same people. With TV shows and commercials, we all watched Saturday morning cartoons and saw the same ads. Now we use ad blockers and ads are targeted, nobody sees the same thing anymore and nobody gets hooked on the same hobbies and interests.
Remember when holiday toy fads caused stampedes and killed people EVERY year? Occasionally we have a toy fad like those ugly booboo dolls but it’s nowhere near as hyped as the tickle me Elmo.
Oh… I remember the last time someone said this about a decade ago. Good times!
Plenty of internet games out there too. I don’t particularly miss neopets or gaiaonline but thats just me. Maybe flash games a lil bit though.
Don’t worry, they have enough YouTube videos of Roblox gameplay to keep them entertained with nostalgia until long after the sun burns out.
I always say, bttf2 had it right.
“Eww you have to move your hands? Thats like a baby game!”
I think you’re right. Archive.org isn’t backing up every Roblox game.
There’s thousands and thousands of crappy browser games that kids play on their phones/Chromebooks. It seems (just from observation) that there’s less console/handheld usage. I wonder if the shared experience around game and game console releases has an influence on the collective nostalgia.
From my understanding its not possible to archive roblox games because the roblox platfrom is built to prevent that.
If there is a way can you please twll me about it.
If Roblox ever folds, there will be an open source reimplementation.
It won’t necessarily have “that one game” that little Billy loved tho :P
