So as host of game theory, I've been teaching through video games since 2011.

But what about just teaching video games?

Us older gamers were fortunate enough to start playing games when the barrier to entry was much lower than it is today.

As I personally grew up, the games and their controls just

grew naturally up along with me. My first system was my dad's NES, which meant all I had

to wrap my head around were two buttons and four directions.

If you were to drop a PlayStation 5 controller into the lap of a kid from the 80s and then ask him to play

the newest call of duty, I guarantee their brain would melt.

You have four buttons, two triggers for each finger, two control sticks, a directional

pad, a touch pad, and oh yeah, if you push in those sticks, they do something else too.

It is no wonder there's more and more online discussion happening right now about what gaming is like for non-gammers.

But it's not just the controls they have to contend with here.

If I were to ask you, what's the first game that you would likely give someone looking to

learn video games, what would you say?

Most people immediately jumped to Mario.

But have you actually thought about how complicated even a game as simple as the original

Mario is?

Sure, the B button's used for running, but only if you hold it down and good luck getting over those

jumps if you're not running and hitting the jump button at the same time so already

we're hitting two buttons simultaneously if that wasn't complicated enough what

about when Mario collects a fireflower?

Suddenly that B button is also now used to throw fireballs.

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