IGN - The impression that older gamers are somehow universally savvier than younger ones, simply because they remember the days when games consoles had less processing power than a Tickle-Me-Elmo (and they had to walk four miles over broken glass to buy one), is false. At 30 I've listened to sound observations about games from 20-year-old gamers and deflected surprisingly childish ones from 40-year-old ones. There's no formula to it; it's matter of maturity, logic and reason, not your year of birth.
Who doesn't love a good challenge? If everything was easy, there would be no joy in getting it done. In the realm of video games, the late 1980s and 1990s were the perfect era of "get good" gaming with multiple big-named titles that put a player's skills to the test. The Super Nintendo, one of
Sure did I can only assume the article is talking about old-school games in general
Also the thumbnail used in the article for super Mario bros the lost levels is a screenshots of the Famicom game
In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Pretty sure I've read and seen parts of Italy experiences/ing pretty bad floodings. Id argue that's more important than trying to prevent the sale of emulation devices.
Fallout content creator The Storyteller has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer, reveals daughter.
Things aren't BAD, but there are a lot of good things from the past that the modern era has missed:
- no DLC
- way more platformers, classic RPGs, fighting games, shmups
- games that were AAA quality weren't riddled with glitches like they are today
- console hardware was well-built and still lasts to this day
- the arcade influence made fun and craftmanship a priority. Not saying that we should go back to the days of arcades, but most games these days do lack the craftmanship that they used to have.
- consoles, handhelds, and PCs offered very distinct and very exciting gaming options. Nowadays, they're all sort of blurring and melting together and losing their individuality.
It's okay to complain, IGN. Don't feel so insecure that there are long-time gamers who prefer aspects of the past to modern gaming.