Why the NES can't be considered to be the best videogame console ever.

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Khuutra said:

BTFeather55 said:

Khuutra said:

BTFeather55 said:

Khuutra said:

BTFeather55 said:
I would think that most people posting on this site are under 30. Therefore, you have candy coated memories of how great the NES was. If you were born in the seventies instead of the eighties and had 2600s in their peak years, you will acknowledge that no home videogame hardware ever passed the 2600 in its prime.

Age has nothing to do with it. By what metric could you possibly compare Pitfall to Super Mario Bros. 3?

 Simple.  Take a time machine back to 1981, have brain washing done so that you don't remember anything about the NES, turn on a radio station, here some ads for Pitfall, go to a store, take it home and play it, and you will see how amazing it is, then in a few years you will see that the Super Mario games really aren't doing anything more groundbreaking at their basic levels than what was not previously done in Pitfall.

Jesus God

So I take it scrolling levels don't really mean anything to you then

 You could choose to run right or left at the beginning of Pitfall.  You could only go right in Super Mario Brothers 1.

That is not what "scrolling levels" means.

Look, I'm sure you were amazed by Pitfall when you were a kid. That's fine. But as a person who can view games jsut for what they are, both in terms of function and form, even minding platform limitations, Super Mario Bros. was just a much more fun, technically complete game.

And I was making the comparison with Super Mario Bros. 3, which blows every other platformer in the universe up to its release entirely out of the water.

To add to that, SMB3 itself can be viewed as "weak" when compared to NSMB or SMW*

Nostalgia is a seducing mistress; no matter how great and superior a new game can be, there will always be people who say it's worse than a game that came out 20+ years ago, simply because they associate it with memories of when they were happy, and were too young to see it for what it was. Take transformers for instance: G1 is paraded around as if it were the work of god when it's nothing more than a thirty-minute commercial, just because it was billy's favorite after school cartoon. For an example in our own medium just look at what's happening to pokemon red and blue and what will inevitably happen to FF7.

 

* This isn't to say that I think SMB3 is bad, just that some people will say it's not as good as SMW. (I do think that NSMB is a little better though.)