video game blog page...

[squiggles2187]

i think i found a link from this fourm (i believe)
of a guys blog and the treasures he finds at flea markets and garage sales
anyone know what im talking about ?

[8bitCaged]

yea I think i know what your talking about is this it
http://yardsales.lizndom.com/index.php

[glynnahab]

yea I think i know what your talking about is this it
http://yardsales.lizndom.com/index.php

While it's fun to read, I just can't let myself believe that anyone would let go of a Dreamcast and 10 games for $3.25. Even regular people that know little to nothing about the values of games know better than that.

[RemyC]

yea I think i know what your talking about is this it
http://yardsales.lizndom.com/index.php

While it's fun to read, I just can't let myself believe that anyone would let go of a Dreamcast and 10 games for $3.25. Even regular people that know little to nothing about the values of games know better than that.

I beg to differ. I have some relatives that believe that video games become obsolete as soon as the next generation comes into play. They couldn't comprehend that I still had a working, "system that didn't play Mario (Genesis)" that I enjoyed playing. "But that cant do HD. What good is it?"

I always use a music metaphore when it comes to explaining old school gaming, and its relevance today: The majority of music lovers would second the statement that music in the 70's was some of the greatest music we'll ever hear. Since then numerous bands have been inspired by that sound, and tried to replicate it. All these new bands have more powerful amps, and guitars, and pedals to emulate sounds. As well as digital audio workstations (as opposed to analogue). All those flashy gadgets arent going to make the artists any better than they already are. Itll certainly make the production better, but it cant make a good composition.

[Gamerforlife]

yea I think i know what your talking about is this it
http://yardsales.lizndom.com/index.php

While it's fun to read, I just can't let myself believe that anyone would let go of a Dreamcast and 10 games for $3.25. Even regular people that know little to nothing about the values of games know better than that.

I beg to differ. I have some relatives that believe that video games become obsolete as soon as the next generation comes into play. They couldn't comprehend that I still had a working, "system that didn't play Mario (Genesis)" that I enjoyed playing. "But that cant do HD. What good is it?"

I always use a music metaphore when it comes to explaining old school gaming, and its relevance today: The majority of music lovers would second the statement that music in the 70's was some of the greatest music we'll ever hear. Since then numerous bands have been inspired by that sound, and tried to replicate it. All these new bands have more powerful amps, and guitars, and pedals to emulate sounds. As well as digital audio workstations (as opposed to analogue). All those flashy gadgets arent going to make the artists any better than they already are. Itll certainly make the production better, but it cant make a good composition.

I'll never understand that kind of thinking. That people believe that anything old has absolutely no value. Heck, why not throw out our history books too. Why study stuff that happens a long time ago when we can just focus on whatever is on the daily news instead?

Maybe not the best analogy, but placing no value on things that aren't current just makes no sense to me

[Dreamstation]

I see retro gaming as chance to experience games and systems that i did not have a chance to play in my childhood and also as a great way to see and experience the history of video gaming. why read a book on history? when you can simply just turn it on and be in that point of history. But toward the attitude a system is obsolete when new systems come out are normally casual gamers that don't care about video games beyond playing them casually and these are also the trendy non gamers that only play what is trendy to play. Like currently FPS's are trendy and a lot of casual and non gamers are only willing to buy and play FPS's. It upsets me that some people will not try others genres of games.

[MrPopo]

Old games aren't that much different than old movies. The technology and storytelling grows over time. However, that doesn't mean that all the old stuff is bad. In fact, a lot of the old stuff is better than a lot of the new stuff. With video games you see more of a contrast, due to the technological limitations of writing software vs. committing things to film. But the same principle holds.