Most old games are terrible by todays standards.

[Mnementh]

Rogerioandrade said:

Well... you said "most" and I think anyone would argue with that. If you had said "all" we would have to argue. A lot.

There are games, even from the Atari era, that hold up well, but just if people trying them make the effort to clean their mind and understand the era when that game was launched.

It´s like watching an old movie.Movies like Limelight, Metropolis and Nosferatu are quaint compared to today´s movies, but if you understand the industry standards at the time they were launched, and how people used to appreciate movies back then, they can be quite enjoyable.

Games like Keystone Kappers on the Atari, Sonic on Genesis/MegaDrive, TMNT 3 and SMB3 on NES etc. have great gameplay and are quite enjoyable. We just need to be open-minded.

Actually your movie example is pretty great. I was the past week on the Berlinale Movie Festival in Berlin. This year the retrospective had SF-movies as a theme, and as I like SF I watched a lot of old movies. Himmelskibet is a hundred years old movie, black and white and silent. But it impressed me with it's special effects. Yes you heard right. The ghost for example were pretty well looking transparent figures. I doubt that with modern computer technology they could be made much better. All it took was using the technology of the time very carefully and out a lot of effort into it.

And yes, a lot of movies aged well. Mostly not because of their special effects, but because of superior storytelling and structure. I take a Vertigo, a Modern Times, a Metropolis over most movies of today.