Naw, I don't miss them one bit. No more waiting for mommy and daddy to buy me a game. We're young, have a job and/or family, and can go buy any game dang game we want at any time! ;-)
Anyone here miss the days of when you were young and gaming?
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Think about, technically, nothings changed. Okay, there were more better games back in the (S)NES era.
There have always been the fair share of good and bad games, even if the latter seems more so now.
There have always been the fair share of good and bad games, even if the latter seems more so now.
I used to love that game but the other day, I thought I had have another stab at it, for nostsalgia purposes.necromanzer52 said:
I felt like killing myself. That game is awful... what was I thinking?!
The majority of my favorite games are oldies. Altered Beast, Rygar, Gunstar Heroes, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Golden Axe, River City Ransom, Vectorman, Castlevania...I could go on all day about how I miss the awesomeness of those classics. Back then, gaming was excatly that. You weren't buying a game for its "intriguing plotline" or "breathtaking graphics". A game was bought to be played and conquered. And played some more.
Button mashing my way through Mortal Kombat and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at age 2 was great fun, but I prefer being able to understand what's going on.
I remember epic eye strain from playing Wolf3D and Hi Octane, along with other classics of the pre-quake era... Captain Keen, Doom & Doom 2, Prince of Persia (Which I beat all on my own) Dune 2 Likewise (on all three houses)...
All before my 13th Birthday.
/me suddenly realises how long ago that was.
Crud.
All before my 13th Birthday.
/me suddenly realises how long ago that was.
Crud.
Yeah, kids are satisfied with any crappy game and would play it for hours...
good times.
When you're young, most game concepts are unknown to you, so you're suprised at every new twist and feature...not as today, where most games just make me "*meh*, the same again, just new textures...".
good times.
When you're young, most game concepts are unknown to you, so you're suprised at every new twist and feature...not as today, where most games just make me "*meh*, the same again, just new textures...".
Um well the thing I miss about playing games when I was younger was the way that I could stay up all night on a game and not feel it the next day. These days if I tried to do that it would either kill me or I would have to nearly overdose on caffeine just to get out of bed.
Youth is wasted on the young!
Youth is wasted on the young!
We're one and the same in that regard, but I wouldn't really call that the old days of gaming. I frankly don't miss the DOS games and early consoles, all I remember is frustration. Though it is kind of despressing how few care to make unique games. The majority of JRPGs are copy-paste for example.Thirsk said:
Well, I wasn't around back then, and as I spent large amounts of my childhood sucking at Morrowind I guess it'll qualify. I do agree, however, that old games aren't good just because they're old - the only really oldschool game I play (and would consider playing) is Tetris.atol said:
Oh, if only the Planescape: Torment-like type of roleplaying games had survived long enough to get past the infuriating gameplay and raise a generation of RPGs with a decent, original story...
Developers almost can't afford to take risks any more. It costs so much to make a game up to current gen standards that a game or character design risk which leads to poor sales can lead to serious financial consequences for the publisher, which in turn can lead to the the developer being "reorganized" or not getting any more development contracts. The business end of things affects game design now more than ever. In the early 90s, making games cost little or nothing in comparison to the costs at present. So taking risks was a little more viable. We have the same problem in Hollywood.Spot1990 said:
The antidote to these problems is the indie game/film genre. However, even the indie games/films are being subsumed into the mainstream because of the popularity and profitability. So nothing is sacred. All about the benjamins.
Oh god i remember those days. Endless hours playing tonic trouble on my friends n64, and let us not forget the glory that is Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time
i miss more my teens years than my childhood. because our first console was crappy (colecovision) and that the NES was cheap to devellop on so there was a very vast game catalog, but with very bad games too. and in those years, renting games was not really comon, not until i was 11 or 12 and that the snes comes out...
Yes and no. I really enjoyed playing on my NES and later gifted C64 with its sheer endless pirated copies . I became a huge Kirby, Mega Man and Mario fanatic and drawed them in school ^^. Later the GB joined and Zelda : Links Awakening is still the best thing on this planet I played in 2D. Playing my first true PC games around 1997 (Jedi Knight, Red Alert!) just blew my mind. But to be able to, I had to trick my parents that a PC would help me in school
But I was VERY short on pocket money and I could get - with the aid of my brother - maybe 4 games in a damn year ! Withouth the internet and gaming press we bought some of bad or mediocre games like Lion King (NES), Smurfes, or Donkey Kong (even in 1990 that felt already old) and missed some great classics like Metroid.
That got not better in my youth time and so I missed great consoles like SNES or SEGA Saturn and Dreamcast entirely. (never liked the PS1 and 2). That really sucked. IIRC I used the NES & C64 until 1996 (!!!)
After a long perioud of PC gaming and a short Gamecube Adventure I jumped back into Consoles with a Wii & DS. Now I have enough of the damn cash to build up a nice game collection and replay everything I missed on the VC. I even have a SEGA Saturn on the way right now to play Daytona USA and SEGA Rally again because I still love them from the Arcades.
. I became a huge Kirby, Mega Man and Mario fanatic and drawed them in school ^^. Later the GB joined and Zelda : Links Awakening is still the best thing on this planet I played in 2D. Playing my first true PC games around 1997 (Jedi Knight, Red Alert!) just blew my mind. But to be able to, I had to trick my parents that a PC would help me in school But I was VERY short on pocket money and I could get - with the aid of my brother - maybe 4 games in a damn year ! Withouth the internet and gaming press we bought some of bad or mediocre games like Lion King (NES), Smurfes, or Donkey Kong (even in 1990 that felt already old) and missed some great classics like Metroid.
That got not better in my youth time and so I missed great consoles like SNES or SEGA Saturn and Dreamcast entirely. (never liked the PS1 and 2). That really sucked. IIRC I used the NES & C64 until 1996 (!!!)
After a long perioud of PC gaming and a short Gamecube Adventure I jumped back into Consoles with a Wii & DS. Now I have enough of the damn cash to build up a nice game collection and replay everything I missed on the VC. I even have a SEGA Saturn on the way right now to play Daytona USA and SEGA Rally again because I still love them from the Arcades.