some people just can't appreciate it...

[BRIK]

Kotaku has a pretty good retro section that is updated regularly. The comments can be terribly ignorant as well though because of course anyone can comment- which has never been a good thing anywhere.

[retrosportsgamer]

Well it's not that surprising honestly. We're in the niche now, gaming went so mainstream this past decade so we could be in the minority against modern gamers who might say they grew up on Halo instead of Super Mario Bros.

The Halo baseline is a good point. There are a lot of comparisons generation and technology jump-wise with those two.

In IGN's defense, their readership and forums are the dumb of the dumb. Good on them for the model they've built and profited from, it just comes with the curse of stupidity.

[BoneSnapDeez]

It is sad, but keep in mind that IGN is a brogamer site. It's not populated by people who play retro games or those who understand console hardware and what a big deal the AES was at the time (and still is). IGN members are the type of dudes who'll be first in line to sell their "obsolete" Xbox 360s as soon as the 720 is released.

That said, I can almost understand where these folks are coming from. The high price of Neo•Geo hardware/software is irksome, to say the least. Don't get me wrong, I love the AES but all I've ever been able to afford is the system (Japanese version, it's cheaper) and a single game (again, Japanese). I'll add maybe 1-2 more AES games to my stash these year, but that's it. It's just not practical from a collecting standpoint, for me at least. I'm content with SNK compilations for other consoles.

[Balasubbie]

It's only really astounding if your gaming circles are as niche as the likes of Racketboy, Retrogamer, HG101 et al. We are the bastions of taste amid a sea of pointless modernity.......Or, just deliberately obscure. Take your pick. It's always the latter.

[BoringSupreez]

A kinda sad thought: Today's 11-13 year olds most likely played a gamecube or ps2 as their first console.

Your average teenager started gaming at the ps1.

Actually, the first console I ever gamed on was a Genesis, but the PS1 was the first one I owned for myself.

I can't see that that's a bad thing, since I appreciate old stuff anyway. Besides, it's a good thing I have nostalgia for 32-bit stuff because otherwise I might have a hard time stomaching the bad graphics and long load times.

[AppleQueso]

I don't think I'd consider any of the teens on this site an 'average teenager'.

[Damm64]

A kinda sad thought: Today's 11-13 year olds most likely played a gamecube or ps2 as their first console.

Your average teenager started gaming at the ps1.

They'll never know the magic of sprites like we do. Hell, most kids that grew up with the PS1 don't either. I was lucky enough to have a Genesis and a PS1 growing up.

It is kind of sad.

There are some exceptions, i have 19 but I LOVE the sprite based games, there is something about them...
I like the detail and the color you can have with the sprites.

[AppleQueso]

idk by 'teenager' I was mostly thinking 15-16 year olds but whatever

[BoringSupreez]

A kinda sad thought: Today's 11-13 year olds most likely played a gamecube or ps2 as their first console.

Your average teenager started gaming at the ps1.

They'll never know the magic of sprites like we do. Hell, most kids that grew up with the PS1 don't either. I was lucky enough to have a Genesis and a PS1 growing up.

It is kind of sad.

There are some exceptions, i have 19 but I LOVE the sprite based games, there is something about them...
I like the detail and the color you can have with the sprites.

I do too. PS1 may have been my first console, but I was gaming on PC for several years before I had one. My family's PC was never high end (or even medium end) so I was always playing 16-bit stuff when I was little. One thing I appreciate about sprite-based graphics is that it took actual artistic talent to make them. It's by far my favorite graphical style.

[o.pwuaioc]

A kinda sad thought: Today's 11-13 year olds most likely played a gamecube or ps2 as their first console.

Your average teenager started gaming at the ps1.

Let's say that someone has to be five to start properly playing a console (or before their parents would buy them one).

To be a teenager today, you would need to be born between 1993 and 1999. Teenagers born from 1996 to 1999, half of all teenagers, would not yet be five by the time the PS2 launched in 2000. So really, "your average teenager" probably started gaming with the PS2 as a new console, and if they played older consoles, they were their older siblings' or had parents looking for the cheapest deal on games. This was the case with me, since we had an Atari before I was born and I remember playing NES a lot when I was 5 and 6. But really it was the SNES and Genesis that I grew up on.