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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by andrepd on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:56PM (#11185235)
I strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by eru on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:51PM (#11185666)
Sturgeon's law applies. We only play the 10% (or less) of old games that are good. There are good new games, too.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by andrepd on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:45PM (#11185814)
I don't doubt it. I only say that the percentage of good older games is at least equivalent, if not greater, than the percentage of good newer games.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by malka on Saturday February 27, 2016 @02:55AM (#11186457)
i disagree with you. i think the bad games end up being forgotten.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by ekianjo on Saturday February 27, 2016 @03:43AM (#11186551)
Nope, they are still getting a lot of exposure on retro websites and even GOG (despite calling themselves Good Old Games there's also some not-so-good games in their catalog).
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by teach on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:07PM (#11185706)
When they speak of "old" games, I do not think they are thinking of Mario or Tetris, which are a decade newer and orders of magnitude better than some "classic" games.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by andrepd on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:38PM (#11185799)
A 31 year old game I feel qualifies as "old". What is old, then, pong on an oscilloscope? :p
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by rhizome on Saturday February 27, 2016 @01:23AM (#11186291)
Sure, Moon Lander. Original Sprint. The dragster one. 31 years ago was at about the end of the Golden Age of video games.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by usrusr on Saturday February 27, 2016 @12:21PM (#11187715)
The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by rhizome on Saturday February 27, 2016 @03:37PM (#11188377)
Ha ha, I get your point, but the GAoVG is a specific era, roughly 1979-1985. :)
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by eru on Saturday February 27, 2016 @09:42PM (#11189549)
Wikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_gam...

Restricting to arcade games is probably justified. I'd say we are in the golden age of video games right now---at least in terms of popularity. And you can still get remakes of all the good old games, or even play the originals.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and ... by rhizome on Sunday February 28, 2016 @10:32PM (#11193452)
Well, there was a first golden age, which was followed by nintendo and the street fighter era, and so on. That's fine you want to make up new Golden Ages -- more good attention to video games the better -- but be sure people aren't thinking of the earlymid 80s when you use the term for other purposes.
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