MS: Xbox360 best selling console WW in 2011

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Kynes said:

Mistershine said:

slowmo said:

Yeah, too many kids posing as "real" gamers these days.  If you didn't load a game off a tape in your life then you can only be so much of a "hardcore" gamer.  You try playing a game that you finally get to the next level, you load it on tape just to find it crashed because you didn't have the volume set on just the right mark.  Old school games would drive you to want to put a fist through a TV in frustration then 5 minutes later put the biggest grin on your face with achievement.  A games supposed to be fun, I don't care how they make it fun to play as long as it achieves that goal.  I think sometimes the very definition of game is lost on some people " an activity that one engages in for amusement".

Great post btw

I always makes me chuckle when people talk about load times nowadays. 30-40 seconds to load a level? To anyone who has had to wait 5mins for a game to(hopefully) load, less than 60 seconds is bliss!

I remember the microcomputer era (I had an Amstrad CPC 464) and some games lasted up to 15 mins to load, and sometimes it failed in the last minute. I really hated it, totally frustrating. Young guys don't know what is to wait for a game :)

LOL, good times, and bad at the same time! I had to pierce my tape recorder with a hot nail to be able to reach the azimuth screw, the Spectrum was so fussy! But when I was already spoilt by the PC cozyness, I eventually decided to make an upgrade also to shorten Myth's load times. And now I'm even considering to buy a console again, my last one was the Intellivision, for the times Windows gets screwed and I want to play but I don't want to bother fixing that darn sorry excuse for an OS.