remembering the good old days

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bored2death

CAGiversary!
i just wanna here storys from you guys about how you managed to survive off of an old video game system playing as a little moving block,

my dad took away all my video games but said i was still able to play the atari. (bought it at a garage sale for $3, but is in great shape) after about ten minutes i decided to stop playing and :shock: read a book :shock:
 
Feh. Newer systems can't compare to the sheer joy brought to me by my Atari, NES, and SNES back in the day. Those were the true glory days of gaming.
 
[quote name='bored2death']i just wanna here storys from you guys about how you managed to survive off of an old video game system playing as a little moving block,

my dad took away all my video games but said i was still able to play the atari. (bought it at a garage sale for $3, but is in great shape) after about ten minutes i decided to stop playing and :shock: read a book :shock:[/quote]

Back in the day, games lived and died by their gameplay instead of their graphics. You could learn a thing or too.
 
some of the games werent so bad

i like the game like atlantis and tutenkam

but my dislike for the majority of the games was when i could play for over an hour and nothing changed but the dificulty of the game and the color of the background
 
[quote name='bored2death']playing as a little moving block[/quote]

That reminds me of Maze Craze for the 2600. That was an awsome 2-player game.

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I think if you didn't grow up during the Atari, NES, SNES years, you can't appreciate just how great the games were. What makes a game good is the gameplay, not the graphics.

To this day, most of my favorite games are from the classic gaming era.
 
Both mine and my dads favorite game was the most basic and addictive game ever created by many or any other species. Can anyone guess what it is?
 
[quote name='bored2death']Both mine and my dads favorite game was the most basic and addictive game ever created by many or any other species. Can anyone guess what it is?[/quote]

Tetris?
 
That's all we knew; little moving blocks.

Once you've witnessed today's 3D polygon textured glory; it hard to go back to the games of old. But back then, that was all the game we had.

I think I had more fun playing the old games; there was more creativity. I still recall playing Tempest for the first time; thinking WTF, "Is this thing even playble. Two dollar in quarters later I was hooked. There was a certain gfreshness that is asbsent from today's sequels.

Think of all the innovative games; Joust, Asteroids, Scramble, Defender. Each of those games was unique, and challanged the player in different ways.

But sometimes the graphics did just plain suck; I remember playing Adventure for the first time; My dot walked up a few screens until I found an arrow. I tried to follow the direction of the arrow but couldn't. Then the arrow started sticking to me; What the hell was going on...

15 minutes later, I figured out that arrow was a 'sword'...Ah, good times.
 
[quote name='moiety']I think if you didn't grow up during the Atari, NES, SNES years, you can't appreciate just how great the games were. What makes a game good is the gameplay, not the graphics.

To this day, most of my favorite games are from the classic gaming era.[/quote]

Hammer, meet nail. You hit it on the head, moiety.
 
The old games are bliss.

The thing is the current and PS1 games will be looked back upon favorably by the current generation of gamers.

The sad part now is no cretivity or imigination is needed to play or even make most games.

Its to Hollywood.

Take some serious time and give some of those older games a shot.

The sad part is now Sony (IMHO) is going to ruin the only chance of those types of games staying mainstream with the PSP. The GBA was still great for 2D and the PSP is going to pull it all away from that...
 
[quote name='bored2death']

but my dislike for the majority of the games was when i could play for over an hour and nothing changed but the dificulty of the game and the color of the background[/quote]

Ha.

Reminds me of my sig..
 
My first system was the NES. I when I got RE4 and another NES at roughly the same time, what did I play first? Super Mario 3. Of course I later found out RE4 not only has awesome graphics, but its got a decent story and amazing gameplay. graphics really aren't that important to a gamer. If you're going to play a game its for the story or the gameplay. If all a game has going for it is pretty colors, it'll flop. Example, MOST XBOX games.

Given the choice between the SNES or the 'most powerful system EVAR' Xbox, its SNES hands down. And I think most experienced gamers would agree.
 
This is why most people here who talk about graphics get on my nerves. Growing up on the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, THE ARCADES (HOW I MISS THOSE), and the NES was great. The technology wasn't old back then...it was brand new. Just like you rip open a new game today that same feeling came along with a new Atari or Nintendo game. Getting Mike Tyson's Punch-Out for Christmas was such a thrill.

When it comes down to it though its all about GAMEPLAY. If a game is fun to play that is all you really need.

Games back then were also geared to see who could get the higher score not who could get to the next level. You had to work with what you had.

I still think the original NES baseball is the best baseball game ever made. Yeah it is super simple but it has everything a baseball game needs. Hitting, Pitching, Stealing so on and so fourth. I don't need current stats or the current lineup for it to be fun.

Don't get me wrong I too go GAGA over new and exciting advances in graphics but these never dictate if I buy a game or not. IT HAS TO BE FUN!!!

Believe me I understand how those games look primitive to you now but maybe when your PS2 or XBOX is 20 years old you see what it's all about.
 
I used to love that Tank game on the Atari. The one where the bullets would bounce on the walls until they hit someone. My brother and I used to play that thing for hours at a time.
 
[quote name='moiety']I think if you didn't grow up during the Atari, NES, SNES years, you can't appreciate just how great the games were. What makes a game good is the gameplay, not the graphics.

To this day, most of my favorite games are from the classic gaming era.[/quote]

You can change the "think" to "know" for a large majority of gamers. That isn't true in every case, but it is in most. Gameplay has always been and will always be more important than graphics. Growing up during the infancy of consoles allowed us to focus on all aspects of games, with little concern towards killer graphics or surround sound.
 
[quote name='kaji7p56']I used to love that Tank game on the Atari. The one where the bullets would bounce on the walls until they hit someone. My brother and I used to play that thing for hours at a time.[/quote]

Combat.

I sort of similar but much lesser-known game for the 2600 is Armored Ambush. Get this if you can find it - 2 player rules!
 
People will still be playing Pong long after Halo 2, Half Life 2 and Counter Strike are taken out to pasture.

You don't need fancy graphics cards, or servers, or 15 other people to make a game fun. You need raw competition and nothing is more real than you, your friend and a little moving dot. Let the dot get by and YOU LOSE. It's all you Timmy, just you and your reflexes. That's it, no "Aw shit, I didn't have the gun I always use" or "No fair, the guy was using cheat codes". You gotta blink or go to the bathroom? Too fu(kin bad, there's no pause on Atari, you pansy. You played t win and if need be, you'd piss your pants.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac'] You gotta blink or go to the bathroom? Too fu(kin bad, there's no pause on Atari, you pansy. You played t win and if need be, you'd piss your pants.[/quote]

When I was around 6 or 7 I was playing this game Space Jockey on the 2600 for like 6 hours straight. My parents were nice enough to let my sister feed me dinner while I played :)
 
i prefer the nintendo nes and super nes over a lot of the newer games out there, but the atari doesn't really appeal to me. i mean if you are talking about hours of neverending gameplay with another person than the atari is the way to go. sadly i have no friends who like to play old games for hours on end. so i stick mainly to my new games, and at the same time keep saving up money and helping my collection of ald nintendo games grow.
 
What? No love for Zork???
Some of the most fun gaming I've ever done was with D&D on pencil and paper..... I've gone through Atari, NES, Sega Genesis, N64, PSone, and now Xbox. There's just something nostalgic and yet still quite exciting about letting your imagination take over. Some books just can't be beat by a movie or even -GASP!- a video game. It's like reading the LOTR trilogy and then watching the movies. They're both good, but just not the same.

but where the HELL was Tom Bombadil in the movies????
 
[quote name='bored2death']what in god's name is zork[/quote]

WHAT!

Yes that was a yell.

They are classic text adventures.... Or Return to Zork was great also.

Lets see

Ah yes heres some recent info from 1 up where they named it in the Essential 50 games...

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3133876

And Jimmie you are still cracking me up. I really missed you about a year ago when you disappeared for some time.
 
[quote name='JimmieMac']People will still be playing Pong long after Halo 2, Half Life 2 and Counter Strike are taken out to pasture.

You don't need fancy graphics cards, or servers, or 15 other people to make a game fun. You need raw competition and nothing is more real than you, your friend and a little moving dot. Let the dot get by and YOU LOSE. It's all you Timmy, just you and your reflexes. That's it, no "Aw shit, I didn't have the gun I always use" or "No fair, the guy was using cheat codes". You gotta blink or go to the bathroom? Too fu(kin bad, there's no pause on Atari, you pansy. You played t win and if need be, you'd piss your pants.[/quote]

:shock:

Oh noes! I agree with JimmyMac...

REPENT ALL, for the end is nigh!
 
All this hardcore old-school shit is getting really dumb. Why is it so hard to admit that you like games from all time periods?

Video games have only been readily available for ~20 years, and you guys are acting like the good ol' days were 50 fucking years ago. You sound like old men talking about getting 30 pounds of candy for a dime. Just shut the hell up.

The point is, graphics are 'good' today because they can be. If you can add to the experience, why not? And in another twenty years, Resident Evil 4 and Halo 2 will have inferior graphics. People will look back and go, 'Remember when gameplay was everything?'

Acting like a hardass because you remember playing older games is dumb. Just play the games based on your level of enjoyment. If you don't like games with good graphics, don't play them. If you need graphics to enjoy a game, play something from this generation.

If you are either of the two cases, then I'm sorry. Limiting yourself to a certain age of gaming is dumb. Play them all, enjoy them all.

Phew. /End rant.
 
[quote name='rabbitt']All this hardcore old-school shit is getting really dumb. Why is it so hard to admit that you like games from all time periods?

Video games have only been readily available for ~20 years, and you guys are acting like the good ol' days were 50 shaq-fuing years ago. You sound like old men talking about getting 30 pounds of candy for a dime. Just shut the hell up.

The point is, graphics are 'good' today because they can be. If you can add to the experience, why not? And in another twenty years, Resident Evil 4 and Halo 2 will have inferior graphics. People will look back and go, 'Remember when gameplay was everything?'

Acting like a hardass because you remember playing older games is dumb. Just play the games based on your level of enjoyment. If you don't like games with good graphics, don't play them. If you need graphics to enjoy a game, play something from this generation.

If you are either of the two cases, then I'm sorry. Limiting yourself to a certain age of gaming is dumb. Play them all, enjoy them all.

Phew. /End rant.[/quote]

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to smack a bitch?

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[quote name='bored2death']Both mine and my dads favorite game was the most basic and addictive game ever created by many or any other species. Can anyone guess what it is?[/quote]

Pong. I own an S4000. How bout that?
 
[quote name='evilmax17'][quote name='bored2death']i just wanna here storys from you guys about how you managed to survive off of an old video game system playing as a little moving block,

my dad took away all my video games but said i was still able to play the atari. (bought it at a garage sale for $3, but is in great shape) after about ten minutes i decided to stop playing and :shock: read a book :shock:[/quote]

Back in the day, games lived and died by their gameplay instead of their graphics. You could learn a thing or too.[/quote]

you could too...it's two, not too...

:lol:

just playin with ya max :p
 
[quote name='bored2death']i just wanna here storys from you guys about how you managed to survive off of an old video game system playing as a little moving block,

my dad took away all my video games but said i was still able to play the atari. (bought it at a garage sale for $3, but is in great shape) after about ten minutes i decided to stop playing and :shock: read a book :shock:[/quote]

Thanks for saying that, seeing that comment depressed me enough to fix my first alcoholic beverage for the evening.

I have my Atari. Gameplay and originality have degraded to the point to where the Atari and NES aren't appreciated by younger gamers this day and age.. I mean hell, it's what the industry was built on. You can't pass game appreciation 101 until you've discovered all that is retro... and even ET on the 2600 is more fun than something like Drake and the 99 Dragons
 
My favorite game is, and will always be Mega Man 2. I still play that game now. I have to beat it about once every couple months.

I also agree with most people in the fact that I had the most fun playing my old NES and SNES than the games now. I guess we're jaded gamers.
 
bored2death wrote:
i just wanna here storys from you guys about how you managed to survive off of an old video game system playing as a little moving block,

my dad took away all my video games but said i was still able to play the atari. (bought it at a garage sale for $3, but is in great shape) after about ten minutes i decided to stop playing and read a book


Thanks for saying that, seeing that comment depressed me enough to fix my first alcoholic beverage for the evening.

I have my Atari. Gameplay and originality have degraded to the point to where the Atari and NES aren't appreciated by younger gamers this day and age.. I mean hell, it's what the industry was built on. You can't pass game appreciation 101 until you've discovered all that is retro... and even ET on the 2600 is more fun than something like Drake and the 99 Dragons
i tryed playing that game once.
believe me there is not a single game out there that could be worse than that game.

it was tempting to break the game and return it to the rental place so no one else would have to suffer.
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first system i ever got was a 2600.

i remember when pitfall came out, if i scored 2 goals in the soccer game that weekend my parents would buy me the game.

so i scored 3 goals.

after that i got a sega master system for christmas. I would play zillion and space harrier for hours.

all my friends had nintendo at the time, so i saved up enough money and bought myself a nintendo. i would play dragon warrior till i fell asleep with the controller in my hand.

i had a genesis and a super nintendo, but i really dont remeber playing them that much, aside for when street fighter 2 came out.
 
[quote name='Backlash'][quote name='kaji7p56']I used to love that Tank game on the Atari. The one where the bullets would bounce on the walls until they hit someone. My brother and I used to play that thing for hours at a time.[/quote]

Combat.

I sort of similar but much lesser-known game for the 2600 is Armored Ambush. Get this if you can find it - 2 player rules![/quote]

I use to have (and still do have) Armored Ambush. It was never one of my favorite games for the system, but it was solid.

Not related to the quote, but I agree with others who are ranting about the overally hardcore attitude with older gamers. Games were great back in the day, and the best are still great today. But, to say today's best games (games like GTA's, Morrowind, Panzer Dragoon Orta, etc) do not have great gameplay are just as bad as the system fanboys.
 
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