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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 cou
by 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 agoYeah 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 agoI 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