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Johnw1104 said: Actually I'm closing in on 28, |
Ah, close enough. I figured you had to be at least late-20s (or maybe early 20s and extremely well-versed in gaming history). Yeah, it's funny because a lot of gamers don't know how different Activision is now from their earlier days. I missed out on a lot of their games but I know they once had a reputation for being much more creative and adventurous than they are now.
I'm 31, so I'm just barely old enough to have seen the tail end of the second generation in arcades and with a couple of older cousins who had things like the really early Atari consoles, and seeing the difference between all those single-screen arcade games and Super Mario Bros. introducing the concept of scrolling games was pretty mindblowing.
In a lot of ways you could argue that was more influential than the jump from 4th to 5th gen, since while 5th gen really made heavy use of 3D, we'd had a lot of precursors to that; games like Super Mario Kart and F-Zero which used sprite-based graphics to simulate the idea of 3D.
