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When 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"
by teach 11y ago
When 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.