Is There A "Too Old" Cut-Off Point on Games For You?

[Zing]

Grew up with the Atari 2600 and my first console was a Coleco Vision in 1982 (with the module #1 to play 2600 games, of course). I played those games until 1988, when I finally got a NES for Christmas. That is six years of exclusively playing those older games, and I could never see myself spending more than a few minutes on them now.

The NES is just far more entertaining. It has little to do with the graphics or sound. The design of NES games is simply more complex and fun. I believe we only played those older consoles because they are all we had. There have been many technologies that were awesome and greatly enjoyed when first introduced that now, people would find hard to accept.

[isiolia]

80s PC games are typically very ugly (what's with color schemes that use nothing but shade of blue and purple?)

Cyan and Magenta*

Basically, CGA graphics. In 320x200 it offers one of three four-color palettes, all of which include black, and 2/3 of which include cyan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

Its successor, EGA, can actually do 16-color, but for compatibility's sake dedicates four of those to the glorious shades of cyan and magenta that CGA is so fond of.

Good ol' 256 color, 640x480 VGA graphics didn't hit until the late 80s, and were kind of the 3D graphics card thing of their day (then it was sound cards ).

[MrFrumble]

Being born in the late 70's, NES+ was of "my generation" even though the older stuff was "around" when I was growing up. I have personally set the NES/SMS as the cutoff for stuff that I will pickup at yard sales. I was offered a big 2600 lot for free and passed it up (not sure if that was a good idea.)

[noiseredux]

Being born in the late 70's, NES+ was of "my generation" even though the older stuff was "around" when I was growing up. I have personally set the NES/SMS as the cutoff for stuff that I will pickup at yard sales. I was offered a big 2600 lot for free and passed it up (not sure if that was a good idea.)

bad idea. The 2600 has a huge following. You could have easily sold the box of games in one lot here for instance. Of course I'm the type that feels the need to rescue pretty much any video game that's less than $1 from yard sales, etc in the hope tha someone who will appreciate it will get their hands on it from me.

I have to say though this thread is pretty surprising to me. A retro forum where many of its members doesn't seem into pre-NES/SMS games? Weird.

VCS rules you guys.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Have you played Atari today?

[MrFrumble]

bad idea. The 2600 has a huge following. You could have easily sold the box of games in one lot here for instance. Of course I'm the type that feels the need to rescue pretty much any video game that's less than $1 from yard sales, etc in the hope tha someone who will appreciate it will get their hands on it from me.

I know, this was before I considered myself some sort of collector and was aware that I could trade for other games, etc. Live and learn!

[fastbilly1]

I go to 2600 and thats about it. I thoroughly enjoy bouts of Combat and Warlords. Sure some games have aged better than others, but these are games that are from the era when arcades were king. Most of them are not designed for you spend hours at a time on them, unless you "get in the zone." They are designed for quick runs and a whole mess of fun. Honestly, I have still not found a better fourplayer game than Warlords. It is accessible by anyone and everyone usually has a good time - even moreso if beer is involved. Sadly it has not been remade in a proper version - the most recent version does not support spinners since it is XBLA only...

[noiseredux]

I go to 2600 and thats about it. I thoroughly enjoy bouts of Combat and Warlords. Sure some games have aged better than others, but these are games that are from the era when arcades were king. Most of them are not designed for you spend hours at a time on them, unless you "get in the zone." They are designed for quick runs and a whole mess of fun. Honestly, I have still not found a better fourplayer game than Warlords. It is accessible by anyone and everyone usually has a good time - even moreso if beer is involved. Sadly it has not been remade in a proper version - the most recent version does not support spinners since it is XBLA only...

is Warlords the like "4 player breakout" game? I remember playing that with Racket at PAX East last year. First and only time I've tried it. Are you sure it doesn't support the spinner on that MadCatz Atari-style joystick that I made the thread about that I'm looking for?

[CRTGAMER]

Most of my consoles are in the front room, so they get most of the use. Since I already have a 5200 with a 2600 adapter there, I placed the 2600 and 7800 in the bedroom. This works out well due to majority of Atari games having the Quarter snatcher style of gameplay. There are exceptions such as Adventure or Haunted House, but most play in shorter spurts which is ideal in the second TV.

[harper]

Yeah I was born in '89 so I guess I'm lucky that my brother even still had an nes by the time I was able to comprehend one. But that's about as far back as I go, I've never had any interest at all in Atari stuff, except that one time I tried to but it didn't work.