I've got a son who's just over a year, and I'm a gamer geek. I've still got my old NES, snes, Genesis w/ Sega CD, and
Dreamcast... I got rid of the N64 since I have it emulated... though I have the systems I just named emulated as well.
<shrug> When he's ready, I'll let him start with the NES, then move through the generations to my PS2 and Xbox,
then to whatever's new at the time. I want him to have an appreciation for how far gaming has come since it's early
days, unlike so many kids out there who start their gaming lives on Xbox and claim that all older systems suck. They
may not have had the graphics of today's games, but most of them had substance, and many had excellent,
thought-provoking stories.
Um, as for anime, I'll let him watch whatever he wants to (provided it's age-appropriate), though I think it'd be great
if he liked anime more than American toons, which seem to be taking a sharp decline. I can't flip through the channels
during the day and find a single decent cartoon anymore, especially one that doesn't border on (or surpass) adult humor,
which a young, impressionable mind shouldn't be viewing in the first place. There's plenty of anime out there which is
appropriate for younger viewers, and as the years go by, that amount only increases.
Thanks for allowing me to rant. ^_^