When my son is old enough, those are games he will play. There is no way he is going straight to the 360 or whatever the latest system is.
Yeah, why would he want to game with his peers, when he can be made to game with dad and his crusty old consoles
The social aspect of gaming is often what makes the games so popular. NHL 94, for example, forms a shared experience that people can relate to when they play it with each other again. That’s a big reason why some games age well - it’s the social bond they imbue more so than gameplay.
one game i've been waiting forever for to get remade is Road Rash. all racing games these days have to be so realistic, i want the good old days back of motorcyle racing where you can beat other riders up with chains and bats, and if you hit a car going 200mph you get to watch as your rider flies through the air for a few miles
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Yeah, why would he want to game with his peers, when he can be made to game with dad and his crusty old consoles
The social aspect of gaming is often what makes the games so popular. NHL 94, for example, forms a shared experience that people can relate to when they play it with each other again. That’s a big reason why some games age well - it’s the social bond they imbue more so than gameplay.
I know what you are saying, but I think he should work his way up. A few months with an NES and a super NES won't stunt his growth or anything! I find the games are better and more suitable to a young boy than anything I am aware of on the next gen systems. In fact, I still purchase Castlevania/Metroid games for the DS, those are my favorites. I am sure a little boy would be more than happy to play a DS with some of the classics on it as well.
On the other hand, clearly he is going to want to play with the ps3 or 360, and his friends will be talking about it. I don't know, I enjoy the nes so much!
one game i've been waiting forever for to get remade is Road Rash. all racing games these days have to be so realistic, i want the good old days back of motorcyle racing where you can beat other riders up with chains and bats, and if you hit a car going 200mph you get to watch as your rider flies through the air for a few miles
What, did you not play the 3DO version? It had real people and real hookers at the end of races!
I still play base wars, still love it...I just can't play a baseball game where you can just "tag" someone out. Dragon Warrior did NOT age well. Forcing you to use a menu for absolutely EVERYTHING is so archaic and takes so much time. You could figure out something else for search (perhaps...pressing B?) Everything else could be done with the A button sans menu I'm sure. Goldeneye didn't age well either, but it's still sorta fun. The FPS has just developed too much since then.
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I stopped playing RPGs after the SNES. I can still go back and play games on the SNES and to a lesser degree the NES.
If I play Dragon Warrior/Quest it has to be the remake the SNES. I could still play the NES version if I wanted too, but the SNES version kept enough of the original and integrated some sortcuts for the menu that made it an easier play. Never did finish any Dragon Warrior/Quest game aside from the first one.
when i read the first page...i had lots of ideas...and as i went through the posts...i kindof changed my answer... some of the remakes over the years really didn't do the original well...i am looking at you roller coaster tycoons!
halflife to me is an awesome example of a game that we extremely groundbreaking and has been followed up very well by valve...great game and i think it holds the test of time well.
sacrilegious to suggest, but duke nukem, the sonics, and even wolfenstein were all ground breakers, and huge ones at that, that i just couldn't go back and play. i tried.
a game that i would like to see redone is carmageddon. unlikely though!
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I stopped playing RPGs after the SNES. I can still go back and play games on the SNES and to a lesser degree the NES.
If I play Dragon Warrior/Quest it has to be the remake the SNES. I could still play the NES version if I wanted too, but the SNES version kept enough of the original and integrated some sortcuts for the menu that made it an easier play. Never did finish any Dragon Warrior/Quest game aside from the first one.
Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) 8 for the PS2 was really good. I've played all of them, and I'd rank that one up with one of my favourites from the series.
Yeah, why would he want to game with his peers, when he can be made to game with dad and his crusty old consoles
The social aspect of gaming is often what makes the games so popular. NHL 94, for example, forms a shared experience that people can relate to when they play it with each other again. That’s a big reason why some games age well - it’s the social bond they imbue more so than gameplay.
I recommend you look for a 3 part BBC documentary called "Electric Dreams". In it, they take an average family and force them to live through 3 decades of technology. They literally remodel their home for the period and take away everything, only giving them correct technology to live out their personal lives. IE: in the 70s there is no washing machine, no microwave, the TV has 1 channel in B&W, only 1 room has heating, etc. and they have to live like that for a long time. The family ends up playing board games together out of boredom and doing a lot more activities together.
In the 80s' episode, the family has to live through the 80s for a time. The kids start getting Nintendo Game & Watches and personal Walkmans and early 1980s computer (that has to be plugged into the only TV set in the house) and the 12 year old boy absolutely loves programming random things in basic and loading games off cassette tape in the living room. Because he has no choice, he plays with that is available to him and he actually loves it. Everybody starts doing their own thing though naturally with more personal technology available to them, the family doesn't spend as much time together anymore.
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Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) 8 for the PS2 was really good. I've played all of them, and I'd rank that one up with one of my favourites from the series.
I put DQ8 in my top 10 games of all time. I'm actually playing through it right now... I hate that they put DQ9 on the DS. If I'm going to play a game for a few hours, I don't want to do it on a tiny portable machine. I'm glad that DQ10 is going to be on the Wii.
one game i've been waiting forever for to get remade is Road Rash. all racing games these days have to be so realistic, i want the good old days back of motorcyle racing where you can beat other riders up with chains and bats, and if you hit a car going 200mph you get to watch as your rider flies through the air for a few miles
I used to absolutely love this game, then I loaded it up on my buddies arcade system the other day and was like wtf.. this game sucks. Battletoads and Double Dragon still rules though.
Samething hapened to me with golden axe.. you just spam the same button then hit magic every 60 seconds.
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I recommend you look for a 3 part BBC documentary called "Electric Dreams". In it, they take an average family and force them to live through 3 decades of technology. They literally remodel their home for the period and take away everything, only giving them correct technology to live out their personal lives. IE: in the 70s there is no washing machine, no microwave, the TV has 1 channel in B&W, only 1 room has heating, etc. and they have to live like that for a long time. The family ends up playing board games together out of boredom and doing a lot more activities together.
In the 80s' episode, the family has to live through the 80s for a time. The kids start getting Nintendo Game & Watches and personal Walkmans and early 1980s computer (that has to be plugged into the only TV set in the house) and the 12 year old boy absolutely loves programming random things in basic and loading games off cassette tape in the living room. Because he has no choice, he plays with that is available to him and he actually loves it. Everybody starts doing their own thing though naturally with more personal technology available to them, the family doesn't spend as much time together anymore.
I don’t understand what this has to do with my post, which is that many games appear to have aged well in people’s memories because they have strong social ties associated with them.
I’m not arguing, I just don’t understand - maybe I’m missing something.
I bought the PS one classic Medi-evil a while ago on the PS3 when it was re-released and couldn't believe how crappy the graphics were. I seemed to remember that it was pretty awesome in terms of graphics when it was released but wow, it did not age well at all.
I'm not a big gamer - but this is one game that I played for hundreds of hours when I was a teen. The graphics weren't great but I found the playability to be excellent. It's my favourite hockey game of all time.
Good ol' Custer's revenge. I actually did a report on video games back in my Computers and Technology course at the U of C that included this game. I also made mention of the original Wolfenstein, which features yellow stick men with Swastikas on the middle of their bodies.
