> I miss the games I played as a kid on my SNES and Sega Mega Drive. I think this may be a defining factor for a lot of people in this thread. As a kid, time m

> I miss the games I played as a kid on my SNES and Sega Mega Drive. I think this may be a defining factor for a lot of people in this thread. As a kid, time management is extremely different. You presumably had much more time and less options of things to pick from, so for the most part, video games may have taken up a large percentage of what you enjoyed, and even what you cared about. As a kid, I would sit for hours playing the nes Zelda and repeatedly dying, picking up the controller, and having another go. But now, now if I even have time to play video games, I just want to sit down and play some mind-numbing, flashy video game to blow off some steam. After a day of work, I don't want to continually be challenged and exert mental effort. I just wish that both clever and mind-numbing games were still being built, but lately consumer trends have skewed towards the mind-numbing.. which I do believe is unfortunate for people with more time and interest in playing quality video games, namely the next generation of kids.