Why is everyone so fascinated with old games?

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The Ghost of RubangB said:

Back in the day game development was so cheap and accessible that more people could do it, so there was a wider range of fresh and crazy ideas.  It took one person to design Tetris, and he had a friend make block graphics for it.  Anybody with programming skills could have a crazy dream, wake up, and make a very unique video game out of it.  Now it takes a team of hundreds of expert programmers to design a 6 hour romp through Germany.

For example,

stof said:
The games of yesterday involved high speed blue hedgehogs, earthworms in super suites, mutant frogs, child cavemen, Michael Jackson, dolphins, Apes, gum eating blobs and Noids (whatever they were). The games of today that aren't made by Nintendo involve guys shooting other guys...

Is it really a valid question why gaming nostalgia is so prominent?

 

Stof's quote should be immortalized and disseminated across the internet.