Alby_da_Wolf said:
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
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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!
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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 :)
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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. 
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At least it's better these days than spending hours editing autoexec.bat and config.sys files whenever you install more hardware ytring to claw back your memory 
. Modern gamers don't know they're born! A hardcore gamer is one that spends hours staring at text files trying to eek a extra couple of kilobytes of memory while still keeping your soundcard or CD drive working. All without the use of the internet to Google other peoples answers. I shudder even today when I see the Tie Fighter Collectors CD in my PC games collection.
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