I’m thinking about the AVGN and how Nintendo makes you pay to play shitty emulator games from like 50 years ago.

Especially for the very old games like atari lol

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Understandable, am dead-center millennial and my limit tends to be late NES.

    This definitely depends on the type of older game. Text adventures can still be very playable and Monkey Island is amazing for a game that was available on the Atari.

    Asteroids and Pacman on the other hand get boring in like 5 minutes. Space Invaders on the other hand for some reason has staying power for like 20 - 30minutes.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Oh for sure, especially text and good writing don't get dragged down by the growing pains graphics were going through at the time. I'm much more of a mechanics and "gamefeel"-minded person so I can't quite cheat the technology like that, there's this stretch of time between late arcade and SNES where it feels like devs were still getting a grasp on the changing tech and there's a certain stiffness to everything.