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"'Next Gen' Consoles"

I've got one question, why is everyone slagging off the old consoles and games?

Take the SNES for example, it was the defining console of it's time, it had some of the greatest ever games brought out on it. Cannon Fodder anyone? What about Super Mario World?

But now these revolutionary games are being cast aside and labelled 'Old'. What people have to remember is that without these games and consoles we wouldn't have todays systems. We wouldn't have the N64 without the SNES, we wouldn't have the SNES without the NES, we wouldn't have the....... I can go on and on.

Imagine Nintendo without Mario as it's mascot. We wouldn't have some of the greatest games ever made.

On March The 7th 1997, games developers where taking a stroll into the unknown with the N64 with huge success worldwide. The same goes for the PlayStation in errr 1995?

Even now the first N64 games that were brought out like Mario Kart, Mario 64 and Pilot Wings are being cast aside and being rapidly forgotten. At the times these were hailed as the most amazing thing ever seen but with the advancement in game engines and developing techniques they are being labelled as 'Old and crap'

Just remember that the older games are the ones to thank for todays games.

thanks for reading

Azz

I remember my favourite colod sore... it was back in early '96 and when I first noticed it whilst picking gooseberrys in the south Korean woodland... unbeknownst to myself the world reknown cold sore thiefs of calcutta, the Zovirax twins, where lurking in some nearby bushes.

Whilst one of the dastardly duo distracted me, by displaying a terrifying selection of Pork Pies, the other snuck under my chin and whipped the poor little blighter off...

It was a terrible loss, mourned by all... especially since it was his last day on the on the job before retiring with honor to a full pension in Bournemouth.

oh... you said consoles...

Everyone has their favorite old console or computer etc. It really depends on when you first got into gaming (like me, with the ol' Atari consoles and ZX81) and how much it affected you at the time. A lot of people here on this site seem to have emulators, just to remember the good ol' games that we all played and maybe to keep playing them on out PCs or Macs.

what i was basically trying to say is that now the next gen consoles are out that the older ones are being rapidly forgotten,
maybe slagg ing off wasn't the right phrase

bluebeetle wrote:
> that's just a mythconception.

lol@BB

that's just a mythconception.

I've heard of such a forum... but up until now had always cinsudered it a myth...

Some kinda classic gaming type thing.

where what forum where!

There is a forum for this...

Also, remember that time moves on and that video games are about gameplay. If a game has unforgetable gameplay it will remain alive in everyone as a 'classic', its thanks to new and orignal gameplay that we have todays best video games.