Well, I can't say that I'm that old (I screwed around with a couple of NES games back in the day... when I was four), but I have to say that Video games just don't do it for me like they used to. I remember having people come over and just playing MK64 Battle mode for a few horus at a time, eating, and then going back to playing battle mode. That social connection has just been cut off. I remember popping in Goldeneye (I actually didn't own Goldeneye, it was just one of those 64 bond games), and playing 4-player for hours, hitting head shots and everything.
I think the main reason that video games have lost so much appeal to me is that fewer and fewer games are including actual social interaction (not the online sort). Call me old fashioned, but I think that split screen is way more fun than online. I feel like in Online, I'm just facing another CPU. Theres nothing but the curse words being emitted from my screen to indicate that this person is anything more than another bot.
Sure, Brawl will always have its moments, but nothing beats the glitchy 4 player of Smash Bros 64.
Maybe I'm just an old coot now.
