| NightDragon83 said: If you think those typical comments you quoted about games today being too easy compared to the games of yester year are a bunch of BS, then just watch as the Millennial generation (ages 15-19 in the video) attempt to play Super Mario Bros on the original NES for the first time...
For reference, I was 5 years old the first time I ever played SMB, and I did just about as well as they do in the video. |
First, I have to lay out the disclaimer that I am from the older generation of gamers; technically the original generation of consumer gamers pre-dating the Atari 2600.
I'm not sure why the whole notion that by merit of doing something first, that automatically makes one feel superior to those who follow later chronologically, but it's pretty common for any pasttime/hobby or "thing" as in "That's my thing, it's how I define myself, and therefore it's important to me to establish that I've been doing it before others and that automatically increases my own self worth."
So yeah; that's pretty much why. And yes; it's a bit ridiculous.
At best, it means one should have a broader range of experience simply due to the amount of time and presumably the number of titles one has played.
Truth is, even if one didn't live through the corresponding years for earlier titles, there's that whole thing called the study of history, where people learn about things from before their time and are able to put those things within the context of the current time, whether that's listening to old music, watching old films or playing old games.
So yeah, it partly saddens me but typically just amuses me when someone has a predictable reaction to something that predates their age as though the present is the only thing that matters.
As far as the whole ignorance thing goes, it's not like most of those old games aren't still available thanks to DD on modern consoles, so there's not really any excuse to bag on sprite based graphics, whether 16 or 8 bit, regardless of how crude they look (pre-NES were little more than boxes in most cases). So one can only assume the reaction from the younger generation of current gamers simply stems from not being around long enough to start exploring backwards to see where all this started.
Some of the final comments kind of summed that up when he talked about the kitch and retro factor of the NES and how a kid who had one of those would likely be the coolest kid on his block.
