Why is everyone so fascinated with old games?

[goddog]

blaydcor said:

goddog said:

blaydcor said:

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.

mario shot fire balls,   he jumped on gumbas which i equate to knifing someone, mario kart you shot people,  the violence is still there just covered up like an anvil to wile e coyote  unless your talking about tetris or something 

That one went right over your head, didn't it?

 

 

not really, sorry if i made my point badly, but its always been guys shooting other guys or some variation there of , unless as i said you count tetris and stuff like that, now while tetris was fun, i dont pull out my old game boy and go oh boy time for tetris. but i do fire up my NES to see how far i can make in on super mario brothers on one life.  same thing today just guys shooting guys. guys running over guys, on all platforms 

 

"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"

 

all of these games were versions of guy shoots guy.   sonic, thats hit and runs like in GTA,   eatherworms did shoot people, frogs beat the shit out of thigs, i must say i cant recall playing the MJ game,  i think i played noids but cant remember it clearly, and i feel bad that some of those others feel familer but the game escapes me .... apes i take it is ape escape, only ever played the ps underground demo and its kinda fuzzy at this point always ment to go back and try it