Can retro games hold up WITHOUT the nostalga?

[NezumiiroKitsune]

The only examples that come to mind are Oregon Trail, Super Street Fighter II and Metal Slug 3. I played all long after they were released, because my earliest console was the PS1, and they all held up and I genuinely enjoyed them. Oregon Trail is just hilarious.

Is Wizardry 8 retro? That's still an unmissable title everyone should try. ~Glances at game stack~ Command and Conquer up to Red Alert II? Civilization: the first one.

Chrono Trigger I first played on the DS. Who doesn't still play pacman when they're bored, and how many of those actually played it when it was "new"?

Yeah.

 

[an874]

Yes, I think its possible given my own experience. I'm 21 now and was 19 when I played Chrono Trigger, and I loved a every second of it. That's pretty good since I was only in kindergarten when this first came out.

 

[Sociophobe]

I never played UFO Enemy Unknown until three years ago, since then I've regularly been playing through a new capmaign every year or so, that game will never get old.

 

[Vault101]

Considering Nostalgia is a coined phrase used by modern day gaming children to comprehend why their older bothers and parents like games that didn't use polygons; yes. I am still playing SNES/NES/PS1 games for the first time, and the good ones I haven't played before are much better then most current gen games I play (most, not all). So much for the Nostalgia myth.

I disagree

I can unserstand COMPLETLEY why people play games that didnt use polygons, like the SNES those games look just as good now as they did then, like metroid was a game I played not so long ago only through emulation..and that was awsome

N64 however (which happens to be my childhood console) undeniably looks like crap, and hasnt aged well making it more off putting than anything from the SNES, I even thourght that SNES games looked and were better back when I was a kid

nostalga when its a bad thing, is when somone is totally and utterly CONVINCED withouth reason that everythign was better when they were a kid, usually due to lack of perspective

anyway some of us find older games offputting, some on us don't

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Um, plenty of them have. I played most the greats when they were old. My favorite console was the SNES, my first was the N64 three years into its life span. I missed the SNES era by quite a bit, yet it's my favorite console, why? Because the games hold up. Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, and Donkey Kong Country 2 are still some of the best games available.

 

[Weslebear]

Just started playing the very first Castlevania , and I've never played any Castlevania before Dawn of Sorrow but I'm having a lot of fun with this. It's actually really fun IMO tricky in places but the game play is really solid and surprisingly addictive.