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Ok, there have been a couple of topics about old style games and the like, and this has got me thinking.
Nostalgia,
Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I’d say no. (Playing Devil’s Advocate for a change.)
People of my age (25-30) when down the pub, will always end up talking about “the old stuff” like we’re old men round a fire.
We talk about kids programmes we used to watch, Saturday morning picture shows and computers.
Now, I’m aware that a lot of people here are under 20 and will have missed the birth of video games as we know them today.
Be grateful, for they were dark days indeed people. The 1st console I remember owning was an Atari. This big old wooden thing with cartridges you stuck in.
Ceefax graphics, and the most unwieldy joysticks you can imagine (except for Nightdriver which used paddle controllers).
Now, people are going to say “Come on, that was cool for it’s day”.
No, it wasn’t. I remember sitting there as a kid thinking “This sucks” watching a white line bat a white pixel across the screen to another white line, controlled by an equally crestfallen mate.
We would play for 30 minutes, put the Atari away and go outside to play Star Wars.
Then I got my spectrum. It had 48k you know. It was ok, the 128+2 was better (built in tape player!).
Then amiga and so on…
This isn’t a history of consoles, this is me saying that I enjoyed them for what they were, but I have no desire to revisit those games and console.
Why?
Because we’ve moved on now, we don’t have to play that crap anymore.
We have faster, bigger, more powerful crap to play and get bored with.
Looking back with fondness at the old gaming days, I think, is more a fondness for the halcyon days of youth, rather than an admiration for the games. (in my case).
I don’t want emulators so I can play Spectrum games on my PC.
That’s like buying a Ferrari, ripping the engine out and putting Flintstone power in.
Doesn’t make any sense to me, we’ve evolving and need to forget about the old stuff so we can move on.
I love the old spectrum games, but that’s more to do with loving my time as a kid.
I didn’t have to worry about a job, money, stress, inflation etc, simple days with simple pleasures. I hated being a kid at the time and wanted to be a grown up (oh if only I’d known).
So, now that I am an adult, I have no desire to revisit my days of staring at rubbish console graphics telling myself “It’s the gameplay that counts!”.
It’s not, it’s what we can do with the technology we have.
One last question though: In an age where we can clone animals, send emails globally in seconds and travel into space, why is Ceefax still looking like the old Atari graphics?
Nostalgia,
Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I’d say no. (Playing Devil’s Advocate for a change.)
People of my age (25-30) when down the pub, will always end up talking about “the old stuff” like we’re old men round a fire.
We talk about kids programmes we used to watch, Saturday morning picture shows and computers.
Now, I’m aware that a lot of people here are under 20 and will have missed the birth of video games as we know them today.
Be grateful, for they were dark days indeed people. The 1st console I remember owning was an Atari. This big old wooden thing with cartridges you stuck in.
Ceefax graphics, and the most unwieldy joysticks you can imagine (except for Nightdriver which used paddle controllers).
Now, people are going to say “Come on, that was cool for it’s day”.
No, it wasn’t. I remember sitting there as a kid thinking “This sucks” watching a white line bat a white pixel across the screen to another white line, controlled by an equally crestfallen mate.
We would play for 30 minutes, put the Atari away and go outside to play Star Wars.
Then I got my spectrum. It had 48k you know. It was ok, the 128+2 was better (built in tape player!).
Then amiga and so on…
This isn’t a history of consoles, this is me saying that I enjoyed them for what they were, but I have no desire to revisit those games and console.
Why?
Because we’ve moved on now, we don’t have to play that crap anymore.
We have faster, bigger, more powerful crap to play and get bored with.
Looking back with fondness at the old gaming days, I think, is more a fondness for the halcyon days of youth, rather than an admiration for the games. (in my case).
I don’t want emulators so I can play Spectrum games on my PC.
That’s like buying a Ferrari, ripping the engine out and putting Flintstone power in.
Doesn’t make any sense to me, we’ve evolving and need to forget about the old stuff so we can move on.
I love the old spectrum games, but that’s more to do with loving my time as a kid.
I didn’t have to worry about a job, money, stress, inflation etc, simple days with simple pleasures. I hated being a kid at the time and wanted to be a grown up (oh if only I’d known).
So, now that I am an adult, I have no desire to revisit my days of staring at rubbish console graphics telling myself “It’s the gameplay that counts!”.
It’s not, it’s what we can do with the technology we have.
One last question though: In an age where we can clone animals, send emails globally in seconds and travel into space, why is Ceefax still looking like the old Atari graphics?
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Ok, there have been a couple of topics about old style games and the like, and this has got me thinking.
Nostalgia,
Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I’d say no. (Playing Devil’s Advocate for a change.)
People of my age (25-30) when down the pub, will always end up talking about “the old stuff” like we’re old men round a fire.
We talk about kids programmes we used to watch, Saturday morning picture shows and computers.
Now, I’m aware that a lot of people here are under 20 and will have missed the birth of video games as we know them today.
Be grateful, for they were dark days indeed people. The 1st console I remember owning was an Atari. This big old wooden thing with cartridges you stuck in.
Ceefax graphics, and the most unwieldy joysticks you can imagine (except for Nightdriver which used paddle controllers).
Now, people are going to say “Come on, that was cool for it’s day”.
No, it wasn’t. I remember sitting there as a kid thinking “This sucks” watching a white line bat a white pixel across the screen to another white line, controlled by an equally crestfallen mate.
We would play for 30 minutes, put the Atari away and go outside to play Star Wars.
Then I got my spectrum. It had 48k you know. It was ok, the 128+2 was better (built in tape player!).
Then amiga and so on…
This isn’t a history of consoles, this is me saying that I enjoyed them for what they were, but I have no desire to revisit those games and console.
Why?
Because we’ve moved on now, we don’t have to play that crap anymore.
We have faster, bigger, more powerful crap to play and get bored with.
Looking back with fondness at the old gaming days, I think, is more a fondness for the halcyon days of youth, rather than an admiration for the games. (in my case).
I don’t want emulators so I can play Spectrum games on my PC.
That’s like buying a Ferrari, ripping the engine out and putting Flintstone power in.
Doesn’t make any sense to me, we’ve evolving and need to forget about the old stuff so we can move on.
I love the old spectrum games, but that’s more to do with loving my time as a kid.
I didn’t have to worry about a job, money, stress, inflation etc, simple days with simple pleasures. I hated being a kid at the time and wanted to be a grown up (oh if only I’d known).
So, now that I am an adult, I have no desire to revisit my days of staring at rubbish console graphics telling myself “It’s the gameplay that counts!”.
It’s not, it’s what we can do with the technology we have.
One last question though: In an age where we can clone animals, send emails globally in seconds and travel into space, why is Ceefax still looking like the old Atari graphics?
Nostalgia,
Is it all it’s cracked up to be?
I’d say no. (Playing Devil’s Advocate for a change.)
People of my age (25-30) when down the pub, will always end up talking about “the old stuff” like we’re old men round a fire.
We talk about kids programmes we used to watch, Saturday morning picture shows and computers.
Now, I’m aware that a lot of people here are under 20 and will have missed the birth of video games as we know them today.
Be grateful, for they were dark days indeed people. The 1st console I remember owning was an Atari. This big old wooden thing with cartridges you stuck in.
Ceefax graphics, and the most unwieldy joysticks you can imagine (except for Nightdriver which used paddle controllers).
Now, people are going to say “Come on, that was cool for it’s day”.
No, it wasn’t. I remember sitting there as a kid thinking “This sucks” watching a white line bat a white pixel across the screen to another white line, controlled by an equally crestfallen mate.
We would play for 30 minutes, put the Atari away and go outside to play Star Wars.
Then I got my spectrum. It had 48k you know. It was ok, the 128+2 was better (built in tape player!).
Then amiga and so on…
This isn’t a history of consoles, this is me saying that I enjoyed them for what they were, but I have no desire to revisit those games and console.
Why?
Because we’ve moved on now, we don’t have to play that crap anymore.
We have faster, bigger, more powerful crap to play and get bored with.
Looking back with fondness at the old gaming days, I think, is more a fondness for the halcyon days of youth, rather than an admiration for the games. (in my case).
I don’t want emulators so I can play Spectrum games on my PC.
That’s like buying a Ferrari, ripping the engine out and putting Flintstone power in.
Doesn’t make any sense to me, we’ve evolving and need to forget about the old stuff so we can move on.
I love the old spectrum games, but that’s more to do with loving my time as a kid.
I didn’t have to worry about a job, money, stress, inflation etc, simple days with simple pleasures. I hated being a kid at the time and wanted to be a grown up (oh if only I’d known).
So, now that I am an adult, I have no desire to revisit my days of staring at rubbish console graphics telling myself “It’s the gameplay that counts!”.
It’s not, it’s what we can do with the technology we have.
One last question though: In an age where we can clone animals, send emails globally in seconds and travel into space, why is Ceefax still looking like the old Atari graphics?
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