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- vm-01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Since you're probably feeling nostalgic right about now. Here's a great website with info from before the Atari 2600, the only thing I wish they had info on is the original commodore 64.
http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/
Enjoy, and also try wikipedia. - Prez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This was the funniest!
When you first burned a bush in The Legend of Zelda and the little goblin gave you 10 rupees and told you it was a secret you were overjoyed. Or that stupid wizard that made you pay him for destroying his door?! Frustration! Perhaps you were like me and went around lighting any green shrubs on fire like it was your job. You had a huge map to explore and endless possibilities for secrets! Where was that red ring? How can you possibly afford the blue ring and the large shield? Life was so complex yet so simple to our immature minds. Yet we ate it up like it was candy. Today I believe our dialog would be something like this: “WTF? 10 rupees! That’s it! How about some silver arrows bitch!” - oldtimegamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I join the site a couples months back and its been nothing but a dream. They have some of the best forums on the planet and everyone understands what it was like to play on a Commodore 64. Not to mention the great articles and people. They are finally getting the attention they deserve. Nice Work Code!
++digg - CorpT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Very well written. Might have to start checking that site out more often. Danke.
- ebola2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally an article worth reading on the home page. Looks like game journalism is not dead after all.
+digg
P.S. Intellivision rocks - Jubii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, getting a new game was great back in the day. We didn't have the Internet to tell us every last detail of a game before it came out. The only screen shots available were from insider magazines, and we would stare at those little pictures for hours. Even the slightest bit of new info on an upcoming game was enough to make your day. There was so much mystery and excitement building up to release day. Man those times were the best.
- SecretJolly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Done and Dugg. Read it earlier. Nice work Code.
- sgtpinky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I felt like I wrote that article myself. Brilliant. Dugg.
- codemonkey420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Ralph_Wiggum, good catch, I totally missed that. I am my own worst editor ;-) I guess I'm far from needing to internationalize it :) Must get the English part down first.
- FadeIntoBlack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice work Code.
I'm not sure if anything will ever top Zelda for me. - shultzy055, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I came into the gaming scene bit later, Sega genesis etc., but I feel that I can still connect with the older games (having replayed some), and even the new(er) classics in the N64 era. Games nowadays are just simulators, not what we used to play
- codemonkey420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Xbox 360 has bugs, they even have an update feature to get new updates off the Net. And PGR3 freezes the console if you look at user profiles in the online game lobby (sometimes). The original xbox is more PC then it is traditional console.
I don't believe consoles themselves are any more perfect then a high quality PC (hardware wise). The biggest difference I see between console systems and traditional PC's in regards to stability and instability: Microsoft Windows and device driver supportability. A console has a known working set of hardware and compatibility with known devices thus its easier to play test where PC's have to support device 'n' which may or may not yet be invented/qualified yet.
Thanks for the support guys! - Loki2010, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0++digg Great article takes me way back. Playing pong on a home TV for the first time was amazing. Then on a TRS80 playing a title Poltergeist, yes based on the movie. To the original star fox on the intellivision. Games have definitely come a long way. Thanks for the memories Code!
- BigUncleMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome,Awesome,Awesome Did I mention I liked it Alot. Great Job
- jumjum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sorry he feels that way about "Pro Wrestling".
Kin Korn Karn was great, but The Amazon did the most damage. - TuxFan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of the good ole days. Zelda, latest issue of Nintendo Power, and soft drinks. Middel school sucked but I did beat Gannon (and learned some computer skills too).
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[quote]Im 32 and I don't feel old either, but in the gaming world, its a place to get away from kiddies who are almost always teens and children.[/quote]
Look up game demographics today. The average player age is 18+ for computer games, with a great deal of them being college students. The belief that it is mostly kids playing is wrong. Unless you're talking about consoles and the arcades, there the age bracket lowers a bit. - disruptor108, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very good article
- mozzer77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good read!
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quality.
- Ralph_Wiggum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This part made me laugh:
Internationalization of a game was the job of a handful of very inexperienced folks (or developers) that barely spoke the target language (i.e. “all your base are belong to us.”). [...] Are the developers less experienced or do they just not caring about the customer needs and desires? - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For what it's worth, I've never experienced any serious bugs while playing a console game, which is what he's comparing all the newer titles to. I don't remember many issues with my c64 games either, but hardware wise -- the c64 was basically as a console as well (nearly everyone had the same configuration, save some extra ram or disk drives).
I can tell you that I've had less awkward things happen while running games on a Mac than on a PC. Throw some processor upgrades, hacks, and add-ons into your system though and things start to get just as hairy. The more non-OEM parts and additions I've made to my PowerMac over the years, the less rock solid it has been. - Function, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*Edit: I've just noticed the three arcade games i've mentioned (Arkanoid, Tempest and Warlords) were all spinner based, instead of joystick. Just a thought.
- ralahinn1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great article, and something on the durability on the old games vs the new ones, my dog chewed uppart of a TMNT game cart for super nintendo (I forgot which game now) and it was STILL playable.My grandchildren broke disk 1 of my first copy of FF7 for ps1 0_0 BIG difference.
- oldtimegamer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why does the age of owner matter? The site is for gamers that are 25 and older and he is 26. The point is that at this age most people are out of college, have a real job, and have been around during the days of Intellivision, Atari, and NES. The world often looks at people in this age group as "too old to play" video games. Im 32 and I don't feel old either, but in the gaming world, its a place to get away from kiddies who are almost always teens and children. I would look into the site first and then pass judgement. Anyway sorry to get off topic.
- buryme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"So before you go screaming about how your new game requires a patch when it locks up on a specific level go read the credits of the game and recall just exactly what hell went into creating this game. "
Code, if it makes you feel any better, when a new game comes out buggy (ahem Civ4 ahem), I am bitching about the company's choice of a release date. I marvel at the accomplishments of the developers, they're not the ones to blame for what is sometimes an excessive amount of crashes or glitches. - TheAlderman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0makes me weep. Sweet memories. I miss my atari 2600.
- EdwinBubble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1
Okay, but the guy who started the site was 25 or 26.... that's old? *****, I must be trailing bandages and puffing the dust of ages out when I talk. - Shoebox639, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He missed the biggest reason why older games have no bugs. They were made for consoles, and if you know console games, they don't crash very often, if at all. Computers on the other hand AREN'T all made the same. So there are bound to be issues with computer games.
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome article which I posted a link to on my school's gaming forum. Very well written.
- MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm glad I don't like games that much anymore. I spent too many time going through the levels of jump & runs, action games and beat 'em ups on my Amiga and SNES over and over again when I lost a life, just to reach a better highscore or see the ending. What did I accomplish by doing this? I could have done better things in real-life.
- spd214, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks for taking me back. Although I still have all my old consoles from NES up and regularly pull them out. I'm probably not the only one, as I have noticed a surge in used game stores which sell all the classics.
- briansalo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great article; definately worth the digg.
- Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When I have children I'm going to only give them NES to play with. I'll also only let them watch quality 80s cartoons like Thundercats and The Real Ghostbusters. My kids will be awesome!
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dragon Quest 8 is the first game in a long time to truly capture my imagination as games used to. Maybe it's because it's so similar in respects to the old Dragon Warrior (the first one) that really got me into RPGs and games in general. It's full of stuff that ignites those long lost feelings for adventure, puts you, the player, in a world that you really affect, characterizes people important to you and adds that little dash of humor for good effect. Now I know DW I didn't have all that, but back then imagination filled in the gaps.
I don't know why, but no other game has truly woken those old feelings. FF8 stired them a bit, but that's it. 2old2play is also a cool website, good find for "older" folks :p - nugget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now I was not old enough when they first came out to play Zelda on NES, but my parents had it and I played it once I got old enough to learn how to play it. It was a great game and still is... I would love to see more games have the kind of fun that I had on my NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DQ VIII is awesome. I need to start playing it again.
One thing that is true though; graphics simply don't matter that much. I have played more original NES games in the past two months than I have PS2. I like the games I have for PS2, don't get me wrong, but theres just a charm about those old games. - Clonetrooper965, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol ....all your base are belong to us.....love it +digg
- garagefighter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When I got my Atari 2600 new we still had a black and white tv at home. I still have a 2600 and a few dozen games packed in a box somewhere.
- Clazor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article was a great read and brought back a lot of memories. I too hope to one day play a game that will make me feel like a did when I was a kid. Although the games are so damn good lookin these days it just doesn't feel the same. Not to mention there are so many games its hard to know even where to begin. Thanks for the good read
- Swampthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Enjoyed the article, but must laugh at the site name 2old2play, and the person who wrote the article is only eight years out of high school, much less college! Come on... there are alot older gamers than even this out there. Heck, I'm 43 years old and have been gaming since the 70s with all sorts of BBSs, text games, Odyssey, etc. This guy doesn't realize it, but alot of us older gamers would call HIM the noob...
- codemonkey420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Plenty of the site's group is well over the age of 43, just because a few of us active guys might still be working to our 30's doesn't mean we cannot party with the older folks and have a good time. I've got 2 kids and a wife and I'm old enough to vote :) Good enough!
CodeMonkey - CaptRock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nicely done Code. Nice to have all the 2old2play folks to hang out and game with. This site has made online gaming such a great experience for me.
- DruishPrincess, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great article, Code.
- ashtonium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A nicely written article for all us gamers that can remember when the controler would make your thumbs hurt so much you would have to experiment with alternative ways of holding the damn thing just to be able to keep playing.
- DanLeCrinque, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great write-up, excellent story !
- lunatikzx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PARTY GREAT STORY
- Function, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's an okay article, but I think he misses the point. Older gamers are not upset by the quality of the graphics, or the dumb way young kids act online. I think we miss the originality in gaming. The fact that every new game, was truly and uniquely different. The gameplay and action, objectives, length.. etc. These were all variables in old gaming. You couldn't save your game (most of the time), which really changed the intensity of gameplay. Because game over was really, GAME OVER! There was no rpg/fps/racer/stragey formula, although one was starting, especially with side scrollers. There's no q-berts, arkanoids, tempests, warlords today. Honestly, the most unique games i've played in the past five years are Katamari Damacy, Intelligent Cube and Dance Dance Revolution. Because they change the idea of interactive gameplay, they aren't just a repeat of the same seven games we've been playing forever.
No digg, I think this guy really misses the point. - laughterkillsme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This article is 100% nostalgia, 0% content.
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