Wright said:
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First of all, what jacks81x said is a lie... I recall no such time, video games have been here since the beginning of time. As for your comment; what do you mean "back then"... speak for yourself, my regular Shadowrun game is every Monday at 7pm, my fortnightly Amber Diceless campaign only ended last Sunday, and my World Of Darkness campaign is starting back up this summer. I'd give up video games in a second if it was between them and roleplaying, pen and paper rules.
Honestly though, to address the OPs question... I have no freaken idea how we did it. I have a massive collection of PS2 and original Xbox games and yet I find myself not really wanting to replay them. I have classics like Ratchet & Clank, Hitman: Blood Money, Prince Of Persia etc. and I find myself buying the PS3 HD remakes because they just don't feel right any more. There's just something about pre-7th gen gaming that feels out-dated now and I say that fully aware that I actively collect both Saturn and Dreamcast games. What I think it most interesting though, and I'm not sure if I'm the only one who gets this but I find PS2, PSOne etc. outdated and looking a little worse for wear, and I find 8-bit gaming outdated, be it Atari, NES, or Master System; yet the 16-Bit era... Mega Drive, SNES, some early PSOne/Saturn 2D games (Castlevania: SOTN, Metal Slug X, and Spot Goes To Hollywood for example), these all seem timeless to me. Perhaps it's because I was old enough to appreciate them but young enough to feel nostalgic for them, but I can play games like the ones I mentioned; or the likes of Streets Of Rage, Donkey Kong Country or Kid Chameleon and they feel just as good as ever...
