The advantage with being my age is I can replay old games and not get caught up on how clunky and dull the graphics are because I've not been brought up on the cut n' slash style visual editing in modern games.
I can easily enjoy a text game like Zork (PC) or The Hobbit (Amiga) as much as the early 8-bit console games like the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive or Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, or Green if you are Japanese, on my GBA (I have a Pokémon Yellow game on the go right now) up through Doom, Quake, Call of Duty through Tomb Raider and Early Solo Warcraft games, then the early immersive experience games like Half-Life and Silent Hill, then migrate onto the early mega-gameplay areas like Morrowind and finally the modern ultra real GWAR, the new MOH, or the highly stylised Stem-Punk aesthetic of Dishonoured and MMORPG like ESO.
The entire gaming world is my oyster and I can appreciate them as someone who played them in their original context... even pong in the 70s. Yep, I'm that old... and still gaming!
MM
I can easily enjoy a text game like Zork (PC) or The Hobbit (Amiga) as much as the early 8-bit console games like the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive or Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, or Green if you are Japanese, on my GBA (I have a Pokémon Yellow game on the go right now) up through Doom, Quake, Call of Duty through Tomb Raider and Early Solo Warcraft games, then the early immersive experience games like Half-Life and Silent Hill, then migrate onto the early mega-gameplay areas like Morrowind and finally the modern ultra real GWAR, the new MOH, or the highly stylised Stem-Punk aesthetic of Dishonoured and MMORPG like ESO.
The entire gaming world is my oyster and I can appreciate them as someone who played them in their original context... even pong in the 70s. Yep, I'm that old... and still gaming!
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
