| peterdavid12345 said: Thanks for the reply, Anyways, we STILL have magazines, beta, demo, etc. We STILL can play local AND LAN MP. And yes, we can STILL share the games, borrow it, or even sell it. Infact, you can even refund ONLINELY thanks to Steam refund. These things i listed aint a replacement, They are additional. Yes, they don't make anymore new arcade games (except in Japan i believe) unfortunately. But you can STILL enjoy some, if not all of the classic :). And you were talking about "free" games, sorry but what do you mean by this ? Tho, even for that, video games are "free-er" now than ever tbh, just look at how many free games on mobiles/tablets and/or PC, lol. (and let's not hating on free2play now, some of the most popular games in the world right now are free2play like LOL, Dota 2, CSGO) But if you refer to priced games then well, thanks to Torrents, it's easily and faster to pirate gamez now than to buy it on Steam/PSN/XBL.... But i won't go much into this :3. My point's dat in this gen, you have more Choices. PC/Consoles/Handhelds/Android/iPhone/Tablets/Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Ouya and even arcade. more Games. bad or good, they're still games! more Transparency. Reviews & Walkthroughs on YouTube/Twitch, Websites like these to keep up with the news, Twitter/Facebook to connect with the developers etc and etc. more FREEDOM. Get tired of gaming companies fvck with your favorite franchise or tired of the BS gaming companies policy ? Now you can fund your favorite developers to make your favorite games come to life! (Star Citizen, Mighty No. 9, BloodStained, etc). Oh and Emulator too btw ;). Don't get me wrong btw, im highly respected the 90s and especially the 80s/70s. Becuz they created the FOUNDATION that lead us into to this gen. Without the past, none of present and future could exist. So of course the 70, 80s and 90s are as Amazing as this gen, if not more thanks to nostalgic ,lul. That's why i said all ages are awesome :). |
Yes and we even still have some BBS you can dial up. All that is not the same experience at all though. There was a certain energy or wonder all around, everything seemed to be possible and your wildest dreams came true on a yearly basis. (until it finally all stumbled on VR) Computer games were used in game shows on TV. Teachers at school basically told the kids to show them what a PC was all about, bring your games, animations or other creations. The transition from written essays to word perfect, better printers yearly, first time printing graphics in text. Handing in schoolwork became a marvel at what was possible each time with new tech.
Then in university the internet slowly became alive. MUD, IRC, birth of IMDB, the internet oracle, playing Tron with 20 people in the Mac room. Ascii art, making your own software to make stereograms, first programmable robotics in the form of Lego mindstorms. Imagine bringing that to work today, yet that's what we did. I actually had done some research for it at university, basically had playing with Lego on my resume.
It was much much more than just the games with nostalgia glasses. Everything seems to be possible, if not this year, then next year. I'm amazed at all the skepticism VR gets nowadays, completely different mindset, pretty much the opposite to how it was in 80's and 90's.
Btw free was more of a joke cause of the rampant piracy which didn't seem to hamper all the innovation at all. I, ahem, didn't pay for games until I was 18 :/ My parents bought some MSX games when I was around 10, yet the rest was all copied. My dad used to bring PC games back from work, pretty ironic as he worked as a software developer himself (business solutions though). Which did mean we always had the latest PC at home. 'Sharing' games simply seemed the norm.
But sure, you can get all the great old games working again nowadays, emulated, remade, or played on vintage hardware with vintage displays. However we never looked back back then, always forward. New stuff was always better.
