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The bigger underlying problem is that we associate those games with happy periods of our lives. The once where we could play games, do projects and not worry ab
by Danilka 11y ago
The bigger underlying problem is that we associate those games with happy periods of our lives. The once where we could play games, do projects and not worry about anything else.
By playing an old school game, your brain extracts these happy feelings from the memory. However, it's not a sustainable source of "fun" per say. As opposed to the newer games where "fun" is being caused by the game directly.
- andrepd 11y agoI strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.
- eru 11y agoSturgeon's law applies. We only play the 10% (or less) of old games that are good. There are good new games, too.
- andrepd 11y agoI don't doubt it. I only say that the percentage of good older games is at least equivalent, if not greater, than the percentage of good newer games.
- teach 11y agoWhen they speak of "old" games, I do not think they are thinking of Mario or Tetris, which are a decade newer and orders of magnitude better than some "classic" games.
- andrepd 11y agoA 31 year old game I feel qualifies as "old". What is old, then, pong on an oscilloscope? :p
- rhizome 11y agoSure, Moon Lander. Original Sprint. The dragster one. 31 years ago was at about the end of the Golden Age of video games.
- usrusr 11y agoThe golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.
- rhizome 11y agoHa ha, I get your point, but the GAoVG is a specific era, roughly 1979-1985. :)
- eru 11y agoWikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_gam... Restricting to arcade games is probably justified. I'd say we are in the golden age of video games right now---at least in terms of popularity. And you can still get remakes of all the good old games, or even play the originals.
- rhizome 11y agoWell, there was a first golden age, which was followed by nintendo and the street fighter era, and so on. That's fine you want to make up new Golden Ages -- more good attention to video games the better -- but be sure people aren't thinking of the earlymid 80s when you use the term for other purposes.