I have enjoyed reading this thread and loved the games of old.
I think there are people out there listening to our demands for old school fun - Fez is imo a spectacular example of how a modern classic can be made while managing to retain some of the magic and soul of the 8 bit era.
For the record, I see no reason why Nintendo couldn't release some retro stuff. I just doubt they will 'cos they're stubborn and have a habit of not doing things I wish they'd do.
In balance, sometimes you play a game you loved as a kid and think "how did I EVER have the patience for this?" - while losing lives repeatedly.
Something us retroheads often forget - A big part of what made the NES era so great was the fact that those old, simple, limited graphics forced you to use a certain amount of imagination while playing, and guess what, you had a child's imagination back then... so of course games seemed better - in many ways they were.
I liken the difference between NES era and modern games to the comparison of reading vs tv. You know the former is superior as an art form, but takes imagination while the latter spoon feeds you images which do not need extra creativity from you. What you are being spoon fed in today's games is unlikely to be the efforts of a creative group of eccentric programmers and more likely to be a polished turd recently excreted from the combined anus of a marketing focus group.
Food for thought.
Too much planning, and you'll never get anything done.
Karl Pilkington.
