Hell yeah!  X-Com was one great game.

lol of course.

Here's little tune to celebrate my favorite game of all time:

Never gets old.

This. I find old games even more impressive and creative... It's just amazing what they could do, being so limited, technology-wise.

Chrono Trigger is pure awesomeness! But I always found it weird that the boxart showed Marle (Nadia) using fire magic, I guess Lucca wasn't pretty enough to be on the cover.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a newer game. Frankly, I think SMG is as much a classic game as anything I've ever seen, and FFX is my favorite Final Fantasy.

It's just that the existence of the newer games doesn't take anything away from the experience of the older games, which continue to have whatever power they used to have. And some of them have considerable power.

Look, it was probably only about ten or so years ago that I really discovered the old Infocom-style text adventures, but it didn't take long for me to be hooked. On the Virtual Console, I don't just download games I'm familiar with/nostalgic for--I download "new" games, too. I just played through the Shining Force games for the first time, and they're great.

Like I say, Galaxy is a marvel... but playing Galaxy doesn't make the original SMB any worse an experience for me.

Classic case of an individual who is unable to understand that his thoughts, feelings, and attidudes do not apply to the world, not even the majority.  Someday you will realize that not everyone thinks like you do or sees the world the same way you do.

Old games are GAMES.  Some people have such trouble looking past graphics and think that's the entirety of what makes a game.  I do not understand why some people cannot understand why a good game is a good game, despite it not looking the most realistic.  I'm sorry, but Risk, Poker, Uno, and Parcheesi are still good games even though they have not advanced in technology.

I think that it is because of that limitation, that games were so creative.  Today, I think most developers tend to rely on the technology to create a good game.

BECAUSE THE DAMN GRAPHICS!!!! oh yeah and THE DAMN MOTION CONTROLLERS!!
Developers today focus on doing better graphics on game that last no more than ten hours or stupids things on the Wii and DS than in making good gameplay and good stories.

Of course there are several exceptions in each console, every console today has a wide variety in good games but also a lot of .... well not so good.

@TruckOSaurus: The geeky look was not so popular back in 95. One of the NPCs even made fun of her glasses.

Games these days tend to be treated completely as a business, tend to be designed for the mass market and heavily simplified for the plebs... most of whom aren't going to be interested anyway. Old games, many of which can still be played today, just have a greater depth, soul and imagination that many of the new games seem to lack.