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Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mar

Re: videogames - no. I had about 9 video-games for my NES. The majority were unplayable enough that I never beat them as a child (Zelda 2, Double-dragon 2, mario 1, mario 3, gauntlet). Zelda 2 would routinely delete all of my progress because there was a physical battery in the cartridge that was running out. I had to work all kinds of magic to get the system to even start (alcohol wipes, blowing, cramming stuff in there). None of the NES games had an acceptable multiplayer. If he had said N64 then maybe. Regardless, downloading a 1 gigabyte update to a game takes less time than driving to the store to buy a game, so I think the whole complaint is baseless. But this to me shows the author isn't being remotely objective in his evaluations. Re: car touchscreens - then buy a car without touchscreens. This is just a 4 completely unrelated complaints. Out of the 70,000 things that have changed in the last 30 years I could easily cherry-pick 4 that have gotten better and write an article about how everything has gotten objectively better.

dweekly 4y ago
When you've driven to the store to buy the game, pop it in, and immediately have to wait for a multi gigabyte download, the farce is made most apparent. You don't buy games at a store, you buy game coupons - the disc is just a proof of payment that is used to download the game, since the fact that it's on a disc is reasonable evidence that it's already out of date.
- zug_zug 4y ago
  I get it, there's one tiny aspect which is frustrating about some modern games. I don't like mandatory updates either. Bu if you're saying that one tiny inconvenience outweighs all the improvements since NES you're just lying to yourself and everyone around you. If I was a child I'd have waited 60 minutes PER BOOT to play a game with graphics, resolution, multiplayer of It Takes Two.
agumonkey 4y ago
They weren't unplayable, they were hard. As a kid we routinely used to go far in the game with fun, as an adult I was shocked at how difficult they were and couldn't finish anything but we used to. Also some games had nice enough multiplayer modes that we spent all night on these with my cousin (bubble bobble, rc pro am). I wouldn't compare the 8bit era with the post ps3 era
- zug_zug 4y ago
  Yeah I had fun too, I played Rampage for hours at my friends house. But not because it's a good game, it's bad game, objectively. Games today are waaaay better and about 90% cheaper often. Those old games are unplayable by modern standards -- beating mario 3 in one sitting with no save capability? People wouldn't play that for free (if it weren't for the nostalgia). The difference isn't technology is worse (in video games, and probably not in general), the difference is children are easy to entertain.
  - agumonkey 4y ago
    I disagree, especially mario 3 .. it was and still is brilliant. Also there are shortcuts to skip levels. Most games had codes to avoid redoing level you finished. I don't find modern games better, they bore me and I'm not sure they have better intrinsic value (I can't stand CoD or similar games, never played pubg or recent ones though) > children are easy to entertain. And they're still the same, I've seen kids play with a switch and they were goofying around not understanding a single thing just like we did in the 80s. Except on a TFLOPS class portable device.
- atmavatar 4y ago
  > They weren't unplayable, they were hard. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Select Start was a life saver

dweekly 4y ago

When you've driven to the store to buy the game, pop it in, and immediately have to wait for a multi gigabyte download, the farce is made most apparent. You don't buy games at a store, you buy game coupons - the disc is just a proof of payment that is used to download the game, since the fact that it's on a disc is reasonable evidence that it's already out of date.

zug_zug 4y ago
I get it, there's one tiny aspect which is frustrating about some modern games. I don't like mandatory updates either. Bu if you're saying that one tiny inconvenience outweighs all the improvements since NES you're just lying to yourself and everyone around you. If I was a child I'd have waited 60 minutes PER BOOT to play a game with graphics, resolution, multiplayer of It Takes Two.

agumonkey 4y ago

They weren't unplayable, they were hard. As a kid we routinely used to go far in the game with fun, as an adult I was shocked at how difficult they were and couldn't finish anything but we used to. Also some games had nice enough multiplayer modes that we spent all night on these with my cousin (bubble bobble, rc pro am). I wouldn't compare the 8bit era with the post ps3 era

zug_zug 4y ago
Yeah I had fun too, I played Rampage for hours at my friends house. But not because it's a good game, it's bad game, objectively. Games today are waaaay better and about 90% cheaper often. Those old games are unplayable by modern standards -- beating mario 3 in one sitting with no save capability? People wouldn't play that for free (if it weren't for the nostalgia). The difference isn't technology is worse (in video games, and probably not in general), the difference is children are easy to entertain.
- agumonkey 4y ago
  I disagree, especially mario 3 .. it was and still is brilliant. Also there are shortcuts to skip levels. Most games had codes to avoid redoing level you finished. I don't find modern games better, they bore me and I'm not sure they have better intrinsic value (I can't stand CoD or similar games, never played pubg or recent ones though) > children are easy to entertain. And they're still the same, I've seen kids play with a switch and they were goofying around not understanding a single thing just like we did in the 80s. Except on a TFLOPS class portable device.
atmavatar 4y ago
> They weren't unplayable, they were hard. ↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A Select Start was a life saver