| d21lewis said: Maybe I reminiscence too much. Times have change. I can recall a time when a gaming console wasn't supposed to be powerful. Didn't have to be powerful. We were just amazed with what we had and what kind of magic they could pull off. The arcades were like being able to play games from the future. PCs were some sort of mythical gaming creature with abilities we console gamers didn't even dream of. Now, we (myself included) are so picky. So hard to please. We want the highest performance possible and a billion capabilities at the lowest possible cost. Where did it all go so wrong? Yes, the leap isn't that great. Yes, we still want to be wowed. But then when did that ever become the focus? I reflect on the past quite often. The NES. The SNES. Gameboy. Playstation. Wii. PS2. It was never about power or performance. It was about the fun that we had. Before this gen, the most powerful never won. It was innovation, creativity, and gameplay that won the day. *shrugs* I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET OFF'A MY LAWN!! |
Ha, it was the other way around. I was stuck with my dad's 386 while my friends had NES and C64, 16 color EGA with bleeps vs fluent graphics with full sound.
Then they had already upgraded to MSX 2 and Amiga 500 while we're just getting a 486 with VGA, still bleeps but at least 256 colors in 320x200! I had Civilization and Dune 2 though :) And being an awful pirate in those days I had as many games to play as I could buy empty floppies :/
Consoles started falling behind when PCs got GPUs. Before that math coprocessors were all the rage. Ofcourse the price difference was still enormous. My first gaming pc in '94, a Pentium 90 mhz with 8mb ram, Soundblaster and Diamond Viper gpu was $3000 dollars.
The fun was all the same though. Everything was still new and new genres were popping up left and right. We were too busy having fun with all our pirated games to care about which had more colors or better frame rates. Not hampered by nostalgia and comparing games to everything that came before them :) No massive hype either as all the gaming news I got was a couple pages in some PC magazine. Games just showed up.
NOW TURN OFF THE INTERNET AND GO PLAY A GAME!
