Continue? Retro-gaming comes to life

The only way to bring back the feeling of opening up a game cartridge would be to make modern games all cost 6 times as much, thereby making them as available to us now as carts were when we were 15.

Retro-gaming is pretty bollocks really. I mean, I have fond memories of a lot of games sure, but when you play them again now it's not the same because games have changed beyond recognition now and are so much more involving and immersive that moving left and right and hitting fire forever just isn't fun anymore.

Also, aren't you like 19 years old? I doubt you're even old enough to remember the Amiga, let alone the really retro stuff like the C64 or Spectrum +2.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

O, please, Shin. A well made game holds up over the years just fine. I can still pick up Super Mario 3 and enjoy the hell out of it. I still regularly play a slew of SNES games. Hell, there's still a few NES games I tear into.

Just because you're a pissy graphics-whore now doesn't mean we all lost the things that made us enjoy the originals.

Seriously, man. You've been in a bad mood all day. What's the matter, Kanye fuck your woman or something?

Psssh, Super Mario 3 was dull when it came out.

I have nothing against retro gaming per se, I just find that I remember things better than they are if I pick them up now. It's not the graphics, it's the limited gameplay. Especially when it comes to proper old school games like stuff on the Spectrum, the difficulty is ramped up to a stupid level and the games are pretty short so you can never get very far anyway. When you're a kid that's cool because you only get one or two games a year so god damn you're going to enjoy them. Nowadays, I get bored and I play something else because there's so much on offer.

I have no nostalgia for the NES because I never had one and I don't think I ever knew anyone with one. It was all about Spectrums, then Ataris then Amigas and Acorns when I was at school. I still enjoy playing Street Fighter 2 but I prefer playing the alpha or vs games than the original SNES version. Anyway, I don't really think of the SNES as retro gaming, retro gaming for me is proper old stuff that you had to load on a tape. You youngsters don't really know about proper oldschool gaming...

There's nowhere I can't reach.