TheSonicRetard wrote:I guess to give perspective and weight to my previous comment, when most people say pre-NES gaming, they typically think of the American consoles. The Atari 2600, the 5200, the 7800 (technically pre-NES hardware), the Colecovision, the Intellivision, maybe the Atari XE depending on perspective. Although I'd argue that those consoles have a few games which would meet the depth standard post-crash gamers tend to expect in a game, I would say that overall they are pretty poor systems with respect to their overseas competitors. European pre-NES gaming, for example, is awesome. The ZX Spectrum, Atari 8-bit line, and C64 saw tons of titles that would satiate a post-crash gamer. The most obvious would be the Great Giana Sisters line, the various ports of R-Type, and probably the best pre-NES hardware game - Turrican 2.
In Japan they had it even better. The MSX is a hell of a computer. It's hardware is extremely similar to that of a Colecovision, to the point where conversions between the systems is a snap and sometimes not even needed. The difference between the Colecovision and the MSX comes down to libraries - the MSX was supported by top tier japanese developers like Hudson and Konami. Sega also had their SG-1000 and SG-3000 machines, which was also very similar in specs to the Colecovision and MSX, and it's home to a bunch of Sega classics.
If you mine these overseas libraries, you can find a wealth of titles that would satiate your post-crash interests.
"Post-crash."
God damn that's a cool sounding term. Like the NES revived the world after the apocalypse or something.
I feel old when talking to anyone my age yet too inexperienced to effectively talk to anyone older. Life is grand that way.
For consoles, I can go back and play some of the NES era games, nothing really before unless its a nostalgic romp with Yars revenge or Kaboom! Handhelds are really limited to GBA and up.
Old arcade games like Pac Man and Donkey Kong are still great as well.
I was never much of a PC gamer until 99 or so. I find it hard to go back much more than that excluding some of the Lucas Arts adventure games.
ZeoDefender wrote:
Console games before the NES are just too simplistic to be enjoyable.
Yeah man, people who like those games must have like, a problem or something. Especially if they don't have nostalgic attachment to them.
I wasn't speaking objectively. Maybe I come across rather strong, but when I say something sucks or is awesome there's an implied IMO that goes on the end of whatever statement I just made.
BurningDoom wrote:I completely agree. I can't enjoy a large portion of pre-NES games because they feel to simplistic to me. A lot of them have the same exact gameplay over and over and over again, it just gets faster. It gets boring real fast, for me.
I can't comprehend how someone who so enjoys comic books and metal music can't appreciate simplicity and repetition.
BurningDoom wrote:I completely agree. I can't enjoy a large portion of pre-NES games because they feel to simplistic to me. A lot of them have the same exact gameplay over and over and over again, it just gets faster. It gets boring real fast, for me.
I can't comprehend how someone who so enjoys comic books and metal music can't appreciate simplicity and repetition.
Hey man there's lots of wanky prog metal that isn't repetitive or simple at all.
BurningDoom wrote:I completely agree. I can't enjoy a large portion of pre-NES games because they feel to simplistic to me. A lot of them have the same exact gameplay over and over and over again, it just gets faster. It gets boring real fast, for me.
I can't comprehend how someone who so enjoys comic books and metal music can't appreciate simplicity and repetition.
You've got to be kidding. Metal and simplicity are two words that don't belong in the same sentence.
BurningDoom wrote:I completely agree. I can't enjoy a large portion of pre-NES games because they feel to simplistic to me. A lot of them have the same exact gameplay over and over and over again, it just gets faster. It gets boring real fast, for me.
I can't comprehend how someone who so enjoys comic books and metal music can't appreciate simplicity and repetition.
You've got to be kidding. Metal and simplicity are two words that don't belong in the same sentence.
What's so hard about mascara and ascending/descending chords?
