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I have recently been playing a lot of old games via a C64 emulator that I purchased and I have come to the conclusion that today's software companies need to look to the bare bones of old games to see what is missing from the current crop of games that are being released. The games from the 80's had so much more depth than the majority of todays games. They are a few exceptions to the rule but it seems that software companies today are quite happy to re-hash a winning format and churn out un-needed sequels after another. You only need to look at the Tomb Raider series, that series is well past it's sell by date but because of the business opportunities with the Lara Croft character we will continue to see countless more versions of that game on the batch of new consoles that come out. Games from the 80's such as The Last Ninja, Head Over Heels & Cabal may not have had state of the art sound & visuals but they had that magic X factor that so many of today's releases are missing. It is a sad, sad state of affairs that today's gamers are being subjected to some of the mindless dross that is passed of as quality games.
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I have recently been playing a lot of old games via a C64 emulator that I purchased and I have come to the conclusion that today's software companies need to look to the bare bones of old games to see what is missing from the current crop of games that are being released. The games from the 80's had so much more depth than the majority of todays games. They are a few exceptions to the rule but it seems that software companies today are quite happy to re-hash a winning format and churn out un-needed sequels after another. You only need to look at the Tomb Raider series, that series is well past it's sell by date but because of the business opportunities with the Lara Croft character we will continue to see countless more versions of that game on the batch of new consoles that come out. Games from the 80's such as The Last Ninja, Head Over Heels & Cabal may not have had state of the art sound & visuals but they had that magic X factor that so many of today's releases are missing. It is a sad, sad state of affairs that today's gamers are being subjected to some of the mindless dross that is passed of as quality games.