Kids in the 60's, 70's, 80's, and probably the 90's, were blessed with tons of fabulous toys. As adults we know that its a lot of fun to get some of them back and own them for a second time. I suppose nostalgia is at the heart of this phenomenon. Today's young people, more than anything, seem totally into their X-Box's, Wii's and Playstations. When they're older do you think the collectors amongst them will collect the computer games they played as kids?
Theres a huge market for retro games and systems now as theres so much dross churned out now, playability goes out the window and people return to the original games for real experience. I started out in the eighties with the 16 bit Commodore Amiga, which had such great arcade style graphics it naturally had tons of space themed games.As time went on i worked backward into old Spectrum tapes, collecting the original 8 bit inspirational games. Now i have an Xbox/PS2?PSP and a Wii and play them all, but the experience is vastly different from those long evenings spent wrenching a plastic joystick trying to kill the dragon in the last level of Cadaver or defeat the huge Nautilus in Xenon 2..
ReplyDeleteI began with 8-bit computers, and I still go back and to them now and then. People have taken the trouble to write excellent emulators, and so I have the chance to replay games I loved and try ones I missed. It was text-adventures for me, although I am absolutely useless at them.
ReplyDeleteBut to GO NORTH, TAKE PEN and GIVE ANSWER ... yes, I am quite certain future enthusiasts will be writing X-Box emulators and making game-images to play on them. And a good thing too. The world needs enthusiastic people who can be bothered.
Bothered about things for their own sake, I mean. Not idiots who make themselves rich at the expense of everyone else.
ReplyDeleteHmm... closest I can get to that sort of thing is on my Mac Plus. Trying to remember where everything is in Shadowgate again (lost nights in a row on that back then). Once saw an old arcade machine on a garage sale for a reasonable price, didn't get it coz I have neither trailer nor towing hook. Still regret not finding some other way of getting it home. There was an exhibition on video games here in Sprout City last summer, and there I could play Asteroids and Zaxxon and Xevious again! Even my kids liked some of the golden oldies. Great fun.
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