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Hynad on 20 July 2014
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Conina said:
prayformojo said:
Player2 said:

Pacman ran at 60FPS. I'd bet you don't recall people saying "OMG! This looks horrible! I'm blind!" too.

I don't recall anyone talking about "graphics" until companies started using it as bullet points to sell their products. The bottom line is, they don't matter. It's cliche, but true. Angry Birds and Minecraft wouldn't exist otherwise. 

Beggars can't be choosers... you were lucky back in these days to get some fun games for your console or home computer at all. Today we have have much more choices in games to play... of course the personal standards in graphics and/or gameplay are much higher than in the past to filter the titles which are worth the investment of time and money.

And of course even in the past people talked about the graphic differences between different versions, if they knew about the differences. But in a much smaller scale, only in the circle of friends / schoolfellows. There was no internet to discuss in larger scale.

Nah... During High school, People were always fighting over what was better, SNES or Genesis. Genesis processed faster, while the SNES had better overall picture quality and sound...

But the arguing over graphics was there. We just didn't have the tools to properly measure every single little technical aspects of the games like we do now (like with DF).