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Games have progressed since the 80's. Anybody who doubts that theory either hasn't played a game in the last 10 years or has only owned a NES since then. It is generally accepted that gameplay levels have dropped, as have innovation. But what about how hard a game is?
After playing on my NES games in the early hours of this morning I can safely say that the eighties gaming scene was a ruff one, and if you weren't perfect there was no way you was going to finish that pattern in clu clu land, save the Princess in Donkey Kong or kill those damn birds in Balloon Fight. I've tried my hardest on all of the games mentioned and only minimally made progress through the games. I get so annoyed that I have to hit something, but yet the games draw me back for yet another go. Somehow the games have imitated the trates of a typical woman - treating you badly but you still crawl back for more.
It's hard to believe that I turned on my NES in Animal Crossing thinking that I could easily waltz through the game without getting so much as a hit. Why was I so confident? I myself am never usually very over confident - yes I have a bit of arrogance, but nothing over the top. The games industry had led me to believe that I was actually a good gamer. A gamer good enough to play anyone at any game and beat them, hands down. A gamer with enough knowledge of every single genre to be able to complete any game with ease. In the cold light of day I am just a gaming fanatic who would have wasted his pocket money in the arcade in less than 5 minutes after dying in the same place on Donkey Kong several times.
Games like Burnout, Super Mario Sunshine and Tony Hawks have been some of the prime culprits in me massively over estimating my ability. All call be completed in little more than a day or 2 with a bit of work, and yet these are the ones which are expected to hold out attention for the longest and keep up playing for the longest possible time span. If this is what it is like now, I think I will start searching for some NES classics on E-Bay rather than wasting my time and money with future titles.
Yes, old titles may have had fewer levels and less depth, but they had one thing which nothing since Tetris has even come near to, and that is addictiveness. Even as I type now I have the urge to shut down my PC, whip on Animal Crossing and play my NES. The games have taken over my life and you very rarely get ones which do that anymore.
I miss the 80's. It was the decade I never got to enjoy...
After playing on my NES games in the early hours of this morning I can safely say that the eighties gaming scene was a ruff one, and if you weren't perfect there was no way you was going to finish that pattern in clu clu land, save the Princess in Donkey Kong or kill those damn birds in Balloon Fight. I've tried my hardest on all of the games mentioned and only minimally made progress through the games. I get so annoyed that I have to hit something, but yet the games draw me back for yet another go. Somehow the games have imitated the trates of a typical woman - treating you badly but you still crawl back for more.
It's hard to believe that I turned on my NES in Animal Crossing thinking that I could easily waltz through the game without getting so much as a hit. Why was I so confident? I myself am never usually very over confident - yes I have a bit of arrogance, but nothing over the top. The games industry had led me to believe that I was actually a good gamer. A gamer good enough to play anyone at any game and beat them, hands down. A gamer with enough knowledge of every single genre to be able to complete any game with ease. In the cold light of day I am just a gaming fanatic who would have wasted his pocket money in the arcade in less than 5 minutes after dying in the same place on Donkey Kong several times.
Games like Burnout, Super Mario Sunshine and Tony Hawks have been some of the prime culprits in me massively over estimating my ability. All call be completed in little more than a day or 2 with a bit of work, and yet these are the ones which are expected to hold out attention for the longest and keep up playing for the longest possible time span. If this is what it is like now, I think I will start searching for some NES classics on E-Bay rather than wasting my time and money with future titles.
Yes, old titles may have had fewer levels and less depth, but they had one thing which nothing since Tetris has even come near to, and that is addictiveness. Even as I type now I have the urge to shut down my PC, whip on Animal Crossing and play my NES. The games have taken over my life and you very rarely get ones which do that anymore.
I miss the 80's. It was the decade I never got to enjoy...
I remeber watching Knight rider when I was a kid during the eighties.
How come no-one has replied to that in over 24 hrs.
Spooky.
Spooky.
You know why everyone likes the eighties?
I was born in them...
I was born in them...
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Madden is addictive. I play it almost every night. You wouldn't get that with a NES game.
Didn't think about that did you??
Ahaha.
And the eighties wasn't as good as you seem to think it was.
Didn't think about that did you??
Ahaha.
And the eighties wasn't as good as you seem to think it was.
Games have progressed since the 80's. Anybody who doubts that theory either hasn't played a game in the last 10 years or has only owned a NES since then. It is generally accepted that gameplay levels have dropped, as have innovation. But what about how hard a game is?
After playing on my NES games in the early hours of this morning I can safely say that the eighties gaming scene was a ruff one, and if you weren't perfect there was no way you was going to finish that pattern in clu clu land, save the Princess in Donkey Kong or kill those damn birds in Balloon Fight. I've tried my hardest on all of the games mentioned and only minimally made progress through the games. I get so annoyed that I have to hit something, but yet the games draw me back for yet another go. Somehow the games have imitated the trates of a typical woman - treating you badly but you still crawl back for more.
It's hard to believe that I turned on my NES in Animal Crossing thinking that I could easily waltz through the game without getting so much as a hit. Why was I so confident? I myself am never usually very over confident - yes I have a bit of arrogance, but nothing over the top. The games industry had led me to believe that I was actually a good gamer. A gamer good enough to play anyone at any game and beat them, hands down. A gamer with enough knowledge of every single genre to be able to complete any game with ease. In the cold light of day I am just a gaming fanatic who would have wasted his pocket money in the arcade in less than 5 minutes after dying in the same place on Donkey Kong several times.
Games like Burnout, Super Mario Sunshine and Tony Hawks have been some of the prime culprits in me massively over estimating my ability. All call be completed in little more than a day or 2 with a bit of work, and yet these are the ones which are expected to hold out attention for the longest and keep up playing for the longest possible time span. If this is what it is like now, I think I will start searching for some NES classics on E-Bay rather than wasting my time and money with future titles.
Yes, old titles may have had fewer levels and less depth, but they had one thing which nothing since Tetris has even come near to, and that is addictiveness. Even as I type now I have the urge to shut down my PC, whip on Animal Crossing and play my NES. The games have taken over my life and you very rarely get ones which do that anymore.
I miss the 80's. It was the decade I never got to enjoy...
After playing on my NES games in the early hours of this morning I can safely say that the eighties gaming scene was a ruff one, and if you weren't perfect there was no way you was going to finish that pattern in clu clu land, save the Princess in Donkey Kong or kill those damn birds in Balloon Fight. I've tried my hardest on all of the games mentioned and only minimally made progress through the games. I get so annoyed that I have to hit something, but yet the games draw me back for yet another go. Somehow the games have imitated the trates of a typical woman - treating you badly but you still crawl back for more.
It's hard to believe that I turned on my NES in Animal Crossing thinking that I could easily waltz through the game without getting so much as a hit. Why was I so confident? I myself am never usually very over confident - yes I have a bit of arrogance, but nothing over the top. The games industry had led me to believe that I was actually a good gamer. A gamer good enough to play anyone at any game and beat them, hands down. A gamer with enough knowledge of every single genre to be able to complete any game with ease. In the cold light of day I am just a gaming fanatic who would have wasted his pocket money in the arcade in less than 5 minutes after dying in the same place on Donkey Kong several times.
Games like Burnout, Super Mario Sunshine and Tony Hawks have been some of the prime culprits in me massively over estimating my ability. All call be completed in little more than a day or 2 with a bit of work, and yet these are the ones which are expected to hold out attention for the longest and keep up playing for the longest possible time span. If this is what it is like now, I think I will start searching for some NES classics on E-Bay rather than wasting my time and money with future titles.
Yes, old titles may have had fewer levels and less depth, but they had one thing which nothing since Tetris has even come near to, and that is addictiveness. Even as I type now I have the urge to shut down my PC, whip on Animal Crossing and play my NES. The games have taken over my life and you very rarely get ones which do that anymore.
I miss the 80's. It was the decade I never got to enjoy...