Why is everyone so fascinated with old games?

[Azelover]

blaydcor said:

Zizzla_Rachet said:
This is all BS...Old School games feel More epic because of the Nostalgia tied to them....But then again...A lot of games post 32 bit and Beyond are crap...But anyway here is an attempt at an Analogy....If Ninja blade Would of Came out when the original Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi were out(of Course it would of been 2d But I mean story premise as the example) Would it have been criticized as much as it was?

If you don't understand it's OK....I used to smoke a lot of pot..

If it's nostalgia, than why are old games we've never played before just as fun? Or why are there dedicated masses of gamers who apprecite old school games yet are still barely in their teens (i.e., have rediscovered old games through emulation or the virtual console or inherited systems).

Exactly.

This needs to be quoted every time somebody says something about nostalgia.

Let me tell you my experience.

I didn't start gaming with the NES, in fact the first Zelda game I played was A Link To The Past. I played through Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, only then did I get to play the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. Compared to the other Zeldas I've played, this one was very basic.

The story was told in simplistic fashion, but I got it right away. That game was magical, in a different way. It was difficult and it hooked me like no other Zelda game I had played up to that point, and a lot of the narrative was left to the imagination. I can't tell you how incredible my experience with that game was, it was like catching a fever. I began thinking about the game in my daily life, and it became such an experience.

I had a tremendously good and impressive time with Ocarina of Time as it was, the game was obviously deep. But this was in a whole other league. And it was the first NES game I played too. After that I really started enjoying other NES games, like Super Mario Bros. 3, and to my astonishment a lot of those games are better than their modern counterparts. And I was an Atari, and later Sega customer. As a gamer I never cared much for Nintendo until I later gave them a chance, and indeed some good things are good forever. Unless you're so jaded that technology is all you can grasp and see, I know quite a few people like this(they're usually younger), then you're going to convince yourself that everthing is crap just by the way it looks. You need to be able to enjoy games for what they are to really understand how great those classic games were and continue to be.