Nightmare Mode takes a look at color, and how its usage has changed over the years.
"Games of old are often remembered for their simplistic, vibrant colour schemes, while many modern games are infamous for their dirty grey-brown visuals. So what’s changed?"
Many things are touched upon, though one interesting postulation is that as gaming evolved, games wanted to be taken more seriously and less as toys.
"Children respond well to colour; that’s why most things intended for them are very vibrant and colourful. It’s because response to colour is very much subconscious and instinctive, and children don’t tend to look behind the design, or think about its effect. This association had built up over time since long before games were made available, and had become a simple, one to one assumption. Many gamers of the time were unwilling to accept that gaming be labelled as ‘for children’, and when they grew up and started developing games, as many did, they made their games much darker, and using different colour schemes, in an attempt to legitimise videogames as a mature medium."
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Golden Axe is a great game I enjoyed it on the SMS, Genesis and in the arcade. Great game but it truly was a quarter eater back in the day. I wish Sega could get the rights to the arcade port of Moonwalker another great arcade game I enjoyed. Collect so many monkeys and become Robo Michael lol.
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8bit was the best days. Not lives saves respawns. Games lasted you .you hooked trying to get past that level.
Too true i very much doubt i beable to complete any game of them days. Nutz to think kids go on about how long games are today. Yet in our day thoes games would last a very long time. Thanks to no save data. Unless you had the amiga further on but that was more 16 bit.
As for patients. Lol well i guess we take games for granted today so if i was to replay some old school games i guess mine would be rather thin.
Hmm mind you waiting 10min for tape to load on each game was bit nightmare.