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Tetris, Counter Strike, Solitaire etc are tecnically 20th century games






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konnichiwa said:

Tetris, Counter Strike, Solitaire etc are tecnically 20th century games

But not 20th century consoles.



That has to be a skewed study. Did they survey just enthusiast gamers cause there is no way in hell I'll belive this one.



Salnax said:
konnichiwa said:

Tetris, Counter Strike, Solitaire etc are tecnically 20th century games

But not 20th century consoles.

Ah my bad.. Isn't that unbelievable..






We fired up my Atari at the last Thanksgiving to let the younger family members experience where gaming was when I was young.
Also still have my original Gameboy and Gameboy Color, Nintendo NES, Nintendo Super NES, Nintendo 64, TurboGrafx-16, and Atari Lynx and all games that were purchased for each along with every manual.

I don't play them much anymore, mainly for family get-togethers, but every now and then I want to scratch an itch and will bust out the Super NES.

My older family members find modern gaming too complicated with all the buttons on the controller and won't participate. But bust out an older system with less buttons to focus on, and they have a great time (60-86 year olds). I get a lot of enjoyment just watching them enjoy themselves.



...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.

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haxxiy said:
xl-klaudkil said:

And how do they know lol i highly doubt this is true.

However i solely play ps2 these last years.
But i dont live in the us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_(human_research)

"The Statistical Society of London pioneered the questionnaire in 1838."

OT - it's a surprising result and I wonder if it would be even higher if TV connectors were more compatible.

I have a RCA to HDMI TV connector. Bought it at GameStop, very inexpensive. Only drawback is that it needs its own power supply. 



I only play games on my Nintari 2600 64.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

I used to play mine from time to time until relatively recently. Mainly SNES, PSX, and Dreamcast. Most games on these consoles I have on modern hardware, and PSX is about to be obsolete as the remaining games I play regularly on the console are coming to Switch in the next two months (Suikoden and Lunar).

They need to bring the Soul Blazer trilogy to Switch/Switch 2.

I know a number of people who have collections of 90s games and consoles. One thing that stuck out with me is I was hanging out with someone at a pub, we bumped into some stoners he knew from school, and we ended up playing some Mario Kart on SNES.

Not to mention, a lot of people seem to be into vinyl. That's from before my time!

I will say, there are definitely a lot more people who play old consoles in Canada than any other place I've ever lived. I even know a guy who has old arcade machines in his basement - granted, he immigrated from the UK. Most of my friends are immigrants.

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I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

These days, NES, SNES and Genesis is all I play. I was patient with modern gaming. I held out hope that it would correct itself sooner or later. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Only Nintendo doesn't seem intent on driving the buss over the cliff, and since that's the case, I'll take Megaman 2, Chrono Trigger and Contra Hard Corps instead. Nothing released these days even comes close to the legendary games released between 85-05, anyway, so what's the point? I'm good.



haxxiy said:
xl-klaudkil said:

And how do they know lol i highly doubt this is true.

However i solely play ps2 these last years.
But i dont live in the us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_(human_research)

"The Statistical Society of London pioneered the questionnaire in 1838."

OT - it's a surprising result and I wonder if it would be even higher if TV connectors were more compatible.

Yea i know what that is smartass.

So how many people where on this" survey" 

Thats the problem with so called human research surveys they only ask a verry verry VERRY small amount of people.

I HIGHLY doubt they asked all americans.



 

My youtube gaming page.

http://www.youtube.com/user/klaudkil