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Ah yes. The ever dreaded 3 pixel penis.
Aside from that.
Hack&Lube Your comment really is quite wrong from my standpoint. Games *can* age badly. There are some classics that stand the test of time. But in the end most games are eclipsed by newer games and the older games are just that. Old and outdated.
Sports games are a prime example of games aging badly. What was groundbreaking and amazing 5 or 10 years ago is now quaint and pathetic.
There are some exceptions like NHL 94/95 but those are few and far between.
It seems that every major generational shift brings this problem. Jumping from the one screen non scrolling games of the Atari/Colecovision era to the far more advanced NES era was a major jump. The NES made the old generation of consoles look extremely out of date. The SNES and Genesis were more advanced and refined the ideas that the NES era started. Jumping from the SNES era to the Playstation/N64 era was even more dramatic. 3D gaming was now the next big thing. It was untested waters and at the time it made the 2D graphics of previous consoles seem quaint by comparison. The PS1/N64 era could be seen as the Atari 2600 version of 3D gaming. Finding new ground and trying new ideas. Great at the time but very primitive now. The PS2/PS3 era has taken those core ideas and refined them.
It's interesting to think about. The old school primitive games on the Atari 2600 came out in 1977. The "modern" style of sidescroller game (Super Mario Bros) came out in 1985 on the NES. It was eclipsed by 3D consoles just 10 years later when the Saturn and PS1 came out in 1995. 15 years later we are still building on the foundation that the PS1/Saturn/N64 built.
8 years between Atari and NES (6 years if you count the Famicom releasing in 1983) 10 or 12 years between 2D and 3D gaming.
15 years of 3D gaming and they still can't program a decent camera.