ReddMcKnight wrote:I was browsing a site I recently discovered called Retro Junk
I've been an active member on that site since like around 2002. Love it.
Gaming in the 90s WAS the best. Not just because of the awesome games but just the feeling of it was so unique for some reason. I can't explain. A typical 90's thing to do is stay up late playing SNES while eating pizza and doritos and drinking soda. no one does that anymore. I think the best word to describe 90s gaming is: Rad.
TO be fair: people do that all the time, just with an Xbox or PlaySation.
Remember people said the same thing about us, except they said it with "Remember when yo0u'd sit in the dark with a Pepsi and bag of doritos and play Atari?"
"The sad thing is they'd probably throw someone like Zorro in Arkham." - Thomas Wayne
I had fun on RetroJunk for awhile, but I left a long time ago. I eventually got tired of the way the user base there automatically hated on anything new, regardless of whether it was good or not. I understand that it's a community for people who love old pop culture, but that doesn't mean we all have to be old fogies before our time and reject anything new and improved.
I'm willing to tolerate a certain amount of it. If people are going to go that route, they should at least know what they're talking about though. I saw a ridiculous amount of bashing on the 2003 animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for not being like the "real" or "original" Turtles... completely unaware that the 2k3 Turtles were very close to the actual original Eastman & Laird version, and that it was the '80s/'90s Wolf/Murakami Turtles that were nothing like the originals. There were plenty of similar cases, but I don't care to ramble on about it.
