The Ghost of RubangB 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?
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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.
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There you have it folks. The only way to enjoy Pitfall is to forget about everything that's better.
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?
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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.
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Jesus God
So I take it scrolling levels don't really mean anything to you then
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You could choose to run right or left at the beginning of Pitfall. You could only go right in Super Mario Brothers 1.
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Scrolling screens is when the screen scrolls. While you walk. It didn't do that in Pitfall. You had to exit one screen to enter another.
And the reason SMB only let you walk in one direction was because it was a linear game with a beginning, middle, and end. You walked from the beginning on the left, to the end on the right. This was good. The game had a story with a villain and somebody to save.
In Pitfall you wander aimlessly to the left or you wander aimlessly to the right, but it's not much of an open world. There are 2 ways to go, and they are equally lame, with no villain, no princess, no story, no ending. You're acting like Pitfall somehow paved the way for sandbox games.
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