(Quick Question) - Do you believe that limitation inspire creativity?

[JEMC]

Yes and no.

All those games back then (because he mostly talks about retro games) were special because of limitation from the hardware but also because competition and the fact that there wasn't so much money involved.

The limitations and competition forced studios to explore new ways in gameplay to both accomplish what they wanted to do but also to differentiate and highlight their game from the rest.

The fact that development wasn't so expensive back then also allowed them to take more risks. In the video he mentions Boogeyman. Does anyone really believe that a game about a superhero where its skills involve burping or to fart will get the green light nowadays? Impossible.

And let's not kid ourselves, nowadays money is the first and foremost limitation in video games, not tech.