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Are there any older Nintendo fans out there? I'm 31 and sometimes think that there can't be many other Nintendo fans over 18! IF you are older, how do you think your gaming has changed over the years...and do you enjoy it more now or hark back to the 'good old days'!
Cheers one and all,
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
Cheers one and all,
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
I'm 29 and play games on my GC and PS2 more than ever. I cannot imagine not playing games anymore.
In my mind the old games are more addictive and last longer, but having downloaded several emulators and old games, they just don't cut it anymore. I must have spent 100's of hours on Pac-Man and Donkey Knog just trying to beat my high score(around 15-20 years ago), but trying to play it now is painfuly repetitive.
Playman, people from our generation are honoured to have seen the evolution of home games, lots of the younger people with consoles today have no idea what times thay have missed out on, how about spening several hours typing in basic programs from CVG magazine and correcting mistakes for yet another breakout game!
I had slightly different run than most at the start (no speccy or C64), listed below is consoles/computers owned and fav games
can't remeber the name of the first console owned but the best game on it was called 'Circus', which was a breakout style game with men bouncing on a see-saw trying to hit moving coloured blocks (a lot of games were strange even then)
Atari 400 - Star Raiders, space conquest game, this machine had 16K of memory and took cartridges when my mates had Vic 20's with 2/3K of mem and tape drives.
Atari 800XL - Rescue on Fractulus, amazing graphics in its day flighing round planets rescuing pilots who crashed.
Atari ST - The point when Atari whent wrong, disapointing machine compared to Amiga, fav game, F16 - Falcon, flight sim.
Sega MegaDrive - Sonic
SNES - sold my megadrive with 2 games for the price I payed for it and purchase SNES with Boozuka style gun - Fav game - Super Star Wars
486 DX2-66 PC - THX - Flight sim
Sega Saturn - OOPS! seemed a good buy at the time, did have some great games though, Nights, Sega Rally, VF2
Playstation - Gran Turismo 1
Pentium 200MMX - PC with voodoo 1 graphics card - Toca Touring cars
Pentium 3 500Mhx - Voodoo 3 - still Toca Touring cars + MS Crimson Skies
Playstation 2 - GTA3, looking forward to MOH: Frontline.
Gamecube - to early to call my fav game, but so far Super Monkey Ball and Star Wars Rogue Leader get most of my attention.
Its frighting looking back and thinking how many games and machines I have purchased, all from Sega Megadrive on were purchased by me and on top of this I had over 30 PS1 games and have 20 PS2 games, 6 GC games. (oh yeah, plus a house, wife and daughter to keep)
No wonder I never seen to have any money.
My fav game off all in mind is probably Star Raiders on the Atari 400, however this simply cannot compete with Rogue LEader on the cube, but when I played this it was completely an original experience flying round space and shooting what looked like tie fighters (letter H flying in and out of screen).
Oh dear, seem to have gone off on one there, sorry to bore the younger folk among us.
In my mind the old games are more addictive and last longer, but having downloaded several emulators and old games, they just don't cut it anymore. I must have spent 100's of hours on Pac-Man and Donkey Knog just trying to beat my high score(around 15-20 years ago), but trying to play it now is painfuly repetitive.
Playman, people from our generation are honoured to have seen the evolution of home games, lots of the younger people with consoles today have no idea what times thay have missed out on, how about spening several hours typing in basic programs from CVG magazine and correcting mistakes for yet another breakout game!
I had slightly different run than most at the start (no speccy or C64), listed below is consoles/computers owned and fav games
can't remeber the name of the first console owned but the best game on it was called 'Circus', which was a breakout style game with men bouncing on a see-saw trying to hit moving coloured blocks (a lot of games were strange even then)
Atari 400 - Star Raiders, space conquest game, this machine had 16K of memory and took cartridges when my mates had Vic 20's with 2/3K of mem and tape drives.
Atari 800XL - Rescue on Fractulus, amazing graphics in its day flighing round planets rescuing pilots who crashed.
Atari ST - The point when Atari whent wrong, disapointing machine compared to Amiga, fav game, F16 - Falcon, flight sim.
Sega MegaDrive - Sonic
SNES - sold my megadrive with 2 games for the price I payed for it and purchase SNES with Boozuka style gun - Fav game - Super Star Wars
486 DX2-66 PC - THX - Flight sim
Sega Saturn - OOPS! seemed a good buy at the time, did have some great games though, Nights, Sega Rally, VF2
Playstation - Gran Turismo 1
Pentium 200MMX - PC with voodoo 1 graphics card - Toca Touring cars
Pentium 3 500Mhx - Voodoo 3 - still Toca Touring cars + MS Crimson Skies
Playstation 2 - GTA3, looking forward to MOH: Frontline.
Gamecube - to early to call my fav game, but so far Super Monkey Ball and Star Wars Rogue Leader get most of my attention.
Its frighting looking back and thinking how many games and machines I have purchased, all from Sega Megadrive on were purchased by me and on top of this I had over 30 PS1 games and have 20 PS2 games, 6 GC games. (oh yeah, plus a house, wife and daughter to keep)
No wonder I never seen to have any money.
My fav game off all in mind is probably Star Raiders on the Atari 400, however this simply cannot compete with Rogue LEader on the cube, but when I played this it was completely an original experience flying round space and shooting what looked like tie fighters (letter H flying in and out of screen).
Oh dear, seem to have gone off on one there, sorry to bore the younger folk among us.
I'm 18. Although that may seem young, I do remember a lot of the older consoles and have been playing games for as long as I remember. I used to play a load of games on my dad's BBC microcomputer, those were the good old days. It basically had ports of old spectrum games, which was pretty easy to do since both systems used 'basic'. Most of those games were recreations of old arcade classsics, so I am well versed in retro gaming.
I am often surprised to learn of the number of 13 and 14 year olds on these boards, who dont seem to have any knowledge of gaming further back than 5 years. I replied to a post yesterday about how nintendo wasnt the first to introduce inter-console linkage, when they blatently were with the super gameboy on the snes, and transfer pak on the N64. I was shocked to see that the article writer hadnt looked back past the sega dreamcast.
I think that whilst games are becoming more graphically accomplished, there will always be a special place in my heart for the old classics. One of my fave is 'Joust' which I always used to play with my brother. He is older, and always used to beat me on it, but I loved it all the same. I have found a nice emulated version of it, and it is still as great as ever. :)
I am often surprised to learn of the number of 13 and 14 year olds on these boards, who dont seem to have any knowledge of gaming further back than 5 years. I replied to a post yesterday about how nintendo wasnt the first to introduce inter-console linkage, when they blatently were with the super gameboy on the snes, and transfer pak on the N64. I was shocked to see that the article writer hadnt looked back past the sega dreamcast.
I think that whilst games are becoming more graphically accomplished, there will always be a special place in my heart for the old classics. One of my fave is 'Joust' which I always used to play with my brother. He is older, and always used to beat me on it, but I loved it all the same. I have found a nice emulated version of it, and it is still as great as ever. :)
Some survey i saw a while ago made the average gba owner to be 20, so there must be fair few over that age to balance against all the kids...
I'm not far over 18 really, but i expect to get quite a long way before i pack in the gaming.
p.s. - don't know if you saw my reply in your other topic, but 'aberystwyth? eh?'
I'm not far over 18 really, but i expect to get quite a long way before i pack in the gaming.
p.s. - don't know if you saw my reply in your other topic, but 'aberystwyth? eh?'
Yes I am much older than 18 and have been playing games since the dyas that Pong was introduced into the arcades back whenever.
every now and then I get a hankering to look back and I have tried various emulators etc to try and recreate the gaming experience of old.
I fondly rememebered playing beach head on the Speccie and I loaded it up in an emulator and played through the game in about 15 minutes. It just seemed so damn easy compared with the rose tinted memories I had of it. the only "old" game that I found that was still enjoyable after all this time was Manic Miner - That game is still damn hard to get through.
At the end of the day I agree with meka - the games nowadays have such big environments etc and outlast the oldies by miles. The majority of the old faves are just too repetitive nowadays but when you actually look at the size of the games etc and what equipment they had to run on you can see why.
Retro gaming is not as much fun as some people will try and make you belive.
every now and then I get a hankering to look back and I have tried various emulators etc to try and recreate the gaming experience of old.
I fondly rememebered playing beach head on the Speccie and I loaded it up in an emulator and played through the game in about 15 minutes. It just seemed so damn easy compared with the rose tinted memories I had of it. the only "old" game that I found that was still enjoyable after all this time was Manic Miner - That game is still damn hard to get through.
At the end of the day I agree with meka - the games nowadays have such big environments etc and outlast the oldies by miles. The majority of the old faves are just too repetitive nowadays but when you actually look at the size of the games etc and what equipment they had to run on you can see why.
Retro gaming is not as much fun as some people will try and make you belive.
Well I'm halfway between 18 and your age, 24.
I have to honestly say that I believe that games and gaming has improved with every new generation of consoles.
The first I had was an Atari2600, and though the games were fun then, now they seem awfully repetitive.
Games are just so much bigger now, and you can go on huge quests, rather than simply trying to beat you hi-score.
Sometimes developers strive for too much realism, and don't concentrate on what's fun, but I guess that's why I've stuck with Nintendo, they know about innovating for fun, rather than for looking good.
I have to honestly say that I believe that games and gaming has improved with every new generation of consoles.
The first I had was an Atari2600, and though the games were fun then, now they seem awfully repetitive.
Games are just so much bigger now, and you can go on huge quests, rather than simply trying to beat you hi-score.
Sometimes developers strive for too much realism, and don't concentrate on what's fun, but I guess that's why I've stuck with Nintendo, they know about innovating for fun, rather than for looking good.
Are there any older Nintendo fans out there? I'm 31 and sometimes think that there can't be many other Nintendo fans over 18! IF you are older, how do you think your gaming has changed over the years...and do you enjoy it more now or hark back to the 'good old days'!
Cheers one and all,
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth
Cheers one and all,
Paul Harries
Aberystwyth