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I am one of the few, a female games player, and as such I think that a lot of the male games players don't expect me to have favorite games, as I don't play games that much. I do have memories of favorite games, even though I didn't start getting in to games until the megadrive and Super nintendo, although my brother had owned earlier computers like the Amstrad CPC.
Although they are quite recent, Snes and Megadrive games could be called classics because people like me remember them fondly, even though we don't still have the games or the machines to play them on. These two machines really started the fighting games craze, with Street fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat being very strong selling games early on. They are also two of my favorite games, and newer versions just haven't really been the same for me. I also loved the Mario and Sonic games, Mario in particular as it had great graphics and the game was simple, but fun. I must have played Super Mario World for ages (getting stuck in the forest until someone showed me how to pass it!) but I never gave up on it until I finished the game.
My boyfriend at the time was the one responsible for getting me into these consoles, and although I still don't consider myself a complete gamesplayer, like some people who spend hours on end on their machines, I do play games quite a lot.
The point is, what is a classic game and will games players who have only just 'got into' playing games on their Playstations and nintendo 64's etc remember them as fondly as we remember the classic games of yesterday. Will they look back in 15 years time, when there psx's are long thrown away or sitting in the loft gathering dust, and say "ah, yes, I remember that game, they don't make games like that anymore!" As I said, I can only really go back as far as the 16-bit consoles for my classic games, does that make them any less a classic than those on the even older machines?
Although they are quite recent, Snes and Megadrive games could be called classics because people like me remember them fondly, even though we don't still have the games or the machines to play them on. These two machines really started the fighting games craze, with Street fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat being very strong selling games early on. They are also two of my favorite games, and newer versions just haven't really been the same for me. I also loved the Mario and Sonic games, Mario in particular as it had great graphics and the game was simple, but fun. I must have played Super Mario World for ages (getting stuck in the forest until someone showed me how to pass it!) but I never gave up on it until I finished the game.
My boyfriend at the time was the one responsible for getting me into these consoles, and although I still don't consider myself a complete gamesplayer, like some people who spend hours on end on their machines, I do play games quite a lot.
The point is, what is a classic game and will games players who have only just 'got into' playing games on their Playstations and nintendo 64's etc remember them as fondly as we remember the classic games of yesterday. Will they look back in 15 years time, when there psx's are long thrown away or sitting in the loft gathering dust, and say "ah, yes, I remember that game, they don't make games like that anymore!" As I said, I can only really go back as far as the 16-bit consoles for my classic games, does that make them any less a classic than those on the even older machines?
I am one of the few, a female games player, and as such I think that a lot of the male games players don't expect me to have favorite games, as I don't play games that much. I do have memories of favorite games, even though I didn't start getting in to games until the megadrive and Super nintendo, although my brother had owned earlier computers like the Amstrad CPC.
Although they are quite recent, Snes and Megadrive games could be called classics because people like me remember them fondly, even though we don't still have the games or the machines to play them on. These two machines really started the fighting games craze, with Street fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat being very strong selling games early on. They are also two of my favorite games, and newer versions just haven't really been the same for me. I also loved the Mario and Sonic games, Mario in particular as it had great graphics and the game was simple, but fun. I must have played Super Mario World for ages (getting stuck in the forest until someone showed me how to pass it!) but I never gave up on it until I finished the game.
My boyfriend at the time was the one responsible for getting me into these consoles, and although I still don't consider myself a complete gamesplayer, like some people who spend hours on end on their machines, I do play games quite a lot.
The point is, what is a classic game and will games players who have only just 'got into' playing games on their Playstations and nintendo 64's etc remember them as fondly as we remember the classic games of yesterday. Will they look back in 15 years time, when there psx's are long thrown away or sitting in the loft gathering dust, and say "ah, yes, I remember that game, they don't make games like that anymore!" As I said, I can only really go back as far as the 16-bit consoles for my classic games, does that make them any less a classic than those on the even older machines?
Although they are quite recent, Snes and Megadrive games could be called classics because people like me remember them fondly, even though we don't still have the games or the machines to play them on. These two machines really started the fighting games craze, with Street fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat being very strong selling games early on. They are also two of my favorite games, and newer versions just haven't really been the same for me. I also loved the Mario and Sonic games, Mario in particular as it had great graphics and the game was simple, but fun. I must have played Super Mario World for ages (getting stuck in the forest until someone showed me how to pass it!) but I never gave up on it until I finished the game.
My boyfriend at the time was the one responsible for getting me into these consoles, and although I still don't consider myself a complete gamesplayer, like some people who spend hours on end on their machines, I do play games quite a lot.
The point is, what is a classic game and will games players who have only just 'got into' playing games on their Playstations and nintendo 64's etc remember them as fondly as we remember the classic games of yesterday. Will they look back in 15 years time, when there psx's are long thrown away or sitting in the loft gathering dust, and say "ah, yes, I remember that game, they don't make games like that anymore!" As I said, I can only really go back as far as the 16-bit consoles for my classic games, does that make them any less a classic than those on the even older machines?