Soapbox: I Wish I Was Growing Up with Games Now

I certainly do not...with Lootboxes and Microtransactions and DLC everywhere..being born in the 90's is a blessing for me, where we had COMPLETE games.

My younger siblings are a testament to kids growing up with Fortnite, mobile games and the PS3/360 era. I'm happy with where I landed. With a SNES controller in my baby-hands 😆

I can sorta see that line of thinking. Games now don’t just end after x number of hours. Growing up with GameCube, PS2 and then DS and Wii, I would say that was a great time to start gaming. Games were fully starting to be incredible cinematic experiences and there was a wide variety of games. At least compared to the NES days when every game was a 2D platformer!

Absolutely not, I grew up in the 80's and the golden age of gaming where we were getting new consoles and brand new gaming experiences on a regular basis. Most of today's games are based off one another or long trodden formula's, RDR2 which many people love, its basic design dates back to GTA3! We had friends coming round for long couch multiplayer sessions, playing online is fun but not as fun and you pay extra for the privilege of not physically seeing your friends. As for the likes of Fortnite, I could easily name 500 games from the 80's/90's I'd much rather play. There were plenty of games back then that took maybe an hour or so to finish, yet I played them for months or years because they were great fun. Oh and we also had the simple concept of buying a game and getting the whole game. As for FIFA with its yearly nonsense, me and my friends used to play ISS on the N64 and yearly roster updates were handled by us changing the names of the players for free 😁

Today's gaming is very enjoyable but do I have more fun then I did back then? Not even close

Finally from my 3 year old after I asked him his favourite games, old Doom (the original), Bug juice (Bug on Saturn), Super Sonic Racing (Sonic R) and Mario Racing Game (Mario Kart 8). So one modern game at least 😂

"Where's the harm?" SMH

I agree that gaming now definitely gives you more value for money as sales are far more often than they used to be but all the games listed a online only timesink games. They do nothing for me. When you can now pick up a year old Assassin's Creed, Disgaea 5 or Persona 5 (not royal yet) for under £20 giving you hours of entertainment. Back on the SNES or N64 you paid at least £40 for games most all the time (you got the odd bargain now and again) and some only lasted a few hours.

Idk, I look at my younger siblings and they play significantly fewer titles than I did growing up. (GameCube through end of PS3) And not due to lack of money or whatever, just due to the massive time investment games today are.

This is a good and bad thing I guess, but I’m happy I got to put in a game, experience it from start to end, and then get to experience something else. Seems like today’s games aren’t built to ‘satisfy’ with an ending. Just keep going on and on.

I dont live in the past. I would have been blown away if I knew what would be possible now. Nobody could ever imagine that. There was no internet either.

Also gaming wasnt seen as cool as it is now. Nobody was bragging of being a 'gamer' like they do now hahaha

I'm of the mind that gaming (in general) is only getting better. Yes, there are bad games, and problems like microtransactions are real, but come on... The Witcher 3. Persona 5. The greatest games of my youth simply don't match up, as it should be, and as it will continue to be.

Yea I can see that. I really appreciate how almost every game is HUGE these days in the way of longevity. Games of the 90s and early 2000s could be embarrassingly beaten in a day. I certainly like games these days and how it doesn't stop there after buying, there are always new additions and free or paid stuff.

@carlos82 "Most of today's games are based off one another or long trodden formula's, RDR2 which many people love, its basic design dates back to GTA3!" - Right, because there was a dynamic Camp in GTA3, and I could play Blackjack, Poker etc in GTA3, I could hunt different species of animals in GTA3, Oh yea and Claude could actually grow his hair and facial....You just dislike the popular stuff eh; Fortnite, RDR2, FIFA. You gotta accept there's a lot of folk who love them, you can't change that.

@TheArt I don't dislike popular stuff though, I really like the first Red Dead Redemption, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Spiderman, Uncharted, and Mario Kart. Many of the games I own and have beaten are the most popular games of this or their own generation's so what you are saying is nonsense. I just don't enjoy the gameplay of those you mentioned or have played better versions for example the first RDR or PES, Fornite is mediocre at best as far as I'm concerned, I don't even dislike RDR2 it just has a few issues for me.

@TheArt ooh growing hair, yeah that really made a huge difference and dynamic camp? What in that I can't run in it. That camp was meaningless in the game and I clearly said basic formula and you even quoted it without understanding. Even much of what you said, I could do in San Andreas or the first Red Dead Redemption over a decade before this launched

I can see where Sammy is coming from. Games nowadays offer more longevity in ways of content being added every month. Back then, you bought a game and tried to squeeze every single inch of life out of it, or with slow internet speeds, lacked the foresight of knowing if a game is a mess.

@kyleforrester87 ironically I have a 13 year old in my house who disagrees with you, he got bored of Horizon quite early on but has recently beat Sonic 2 and is now playing Sonic 3. For reference I platinumed Horizon but I'd be more likely to replay Sonic 2 if I'm truly honest

My youth was defined by one series: Command and conquer. Best times ever

@beavis64
There was an old covered ice skating rink in town. I was going there regularly because of an arcade game in the cafe. That thing was some stupid electric/mechanical machine where you move the plane to line up with the enemy bombers coming up on a screen sort of hologram looking. I spent a fortune in that crap haha

@kyleforrester87 haha, he can go by himself

Ah nostalgia, it's not what it used to be

Glad I started with the Atari, I still play C64 games and PS4 games. Games remain playable and many early computers had quite unique qualities to their graphics and sound. The 'history' of gaming is bloomin' great, and Im glad to have seen my view of it from the early 1980s onwards. At this point I dont think my interest in older video games is just nostalgia, Ive often found older games that are 'new' to me, that I find just as compelling as modern titles.

@ShogunRok its funny we're having this debate at a time when so many of the best games recently are remakes of 20 plus year old games or sequels to the likes of Shenmue which still play like a Dreamcast game. No doubt The Witcher 3 and Persona 5 are fantastic but still are the likes of Persona 4 and Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy IX. It's not that I don't like new games, I've got the same excitement for Cyberpunk that I did for Mario 64. I just can't say that I have more fun with them, I enjoy many of them just as much and many of them less so, the same as every generation I've played through

I'm of the age when I should be into retro gaming and yet it does nothing for me. Growing up I occasionally played on a console but only with my brother or round a mate's house.

The only games I was really into were football management games. So many hours spent trying to win the PL with Sunderland or take AC Milan to CL glory!

In my opinion single player titles have never been better and kids don't know how lucky they are.

Nice article! I definitely only amassed 3 to 5 new games per year growing up, so I had to choose carefully. Some other ways to play games included borrowing from friends, rentals, and arcades. I'm at least happy that the "second level syndrome" from games is gone (making the second or third level in a game godawful hard so you couldn't beat the game over a rental cycle).

Today, games as a service is the biggest difference, with games designed to drip-feed rewards and create habits around daily logins and grinding. I've definitely got caught up in more than a few of those in recent times, and I always come away feeling icky after just wasting a couple months on a "free" game, usually never having gotten those skins I was grinding for all that time. I'd say this is probably worse!

Gaming has lost that excitement it once had and it no longer feels like games are breaking new ground or creating new genres. That's not to say there aren't brilliant titles - many are better than they've ever been - but I'm grateful for growing up in the '80's and '90's and experiencing gaming back then. Today's internet culture has ruined a lot of aspects. Kids today, eh.

@carlos82 Yeah I get where you're coming from, I guess it just comes down to taste and perspective. There are so many games I've genuinely adored over the years, and without the ones that came before, I wouldn't like the ones that I do right now. But ultimately, at least for me, I look at the games I've played this generation and I can't help but think that it's the best I've ever had it.

At least we can all agree that gaming's a pretty great hobby, judging by all the comments.

Sorry Sammy this article is poppycock.

You clearly experienced gaming in a middle class house hold. If on the other hand got taken to Stanley Dock Market in Liverpool you could have picked up a Game boy add on cart with 150 games, a ps1 add on which granted you an untold amount of games for a quid each and you could straight up copy cassettes on a hi-fi. If you paid full price you were the only person who did.

To be fair games today are great, I struggle to play and enjoy the Snes and nes mini games of the world. But back then sections you have purposefully not mentioned - it was magic. Seeing Bomberman, wiz n liz, xcom for the first time, Gamesmaster, amazing magazines with discs on the covers, the scene was underground and the sub culture was about finding the next best games. Lemmings, Final Fantasy 7, Street Fighter 2, ISS, Cannon Fodder, Crazy Taxi.... Shenmue?

If you are wishing to be a kid again you have hit a premature mid life crisis. Think about buying a new car perhaps? Wanting to change your profession? Want to ditch you GF for a younger blonder model?

Been there bro. Been there. Let me assure you, just like a half decent midfielder it will pass.

Sega genesis for the win.man i l💖💚😍 ve this console.i grew up with the atari.been gaming since.and its been amazing to me how far video games have come.i l💖ve video more now than i did .because as u get older.you think about a lot of stuff.video games now.looks like movies.and storytelling is excellent.as with gameplay and graphics.word up son

@carlos82 All those you mentioned (HZD, GOW, Spiderman, Uncharted) aren't as popular as those you keep criticizing -FIFA, Fortnite, RDR2 so I still made my point.
The Camp and hair in RDR2 is revolutionary no matter how you look at it, to consider it meaningless means you don't actually acknowledge any advancement in realism.

@themcnoisy indeed...

Remember Pacman and other games of that era - replayability came from Hi-Score charts and limited lives bt the games themselves were incredibly repetitive and, in the case of Pacman, the same Maze every single level...

The levels may have had a difficulty scaling - but they didn't have a story, no character depth in game and if any characters were given a back story, it came in a manual - it was certainly not in the game.

People replayed because gaming was new - they wanted to get that but further, that hi-score before their lives ran out and have to return to the beginning and start all over again. The 'end' of a game was virtually unobtainable for the vast majority who only played for an hour or two before parents wanted to sit down in the evening to watch TV - you didn't have TV's in your bedroom...

I personally cannot play the games I grew up playing, loving etc. Now they bore me, get tedious and leave me feeling very flat - why do I have to clear this same maze yet again when I could be exploring a Galaxy, saving worlds or some AI characters that are like friends now as I have spent hours with them on my journey from the various threats that setting/situation has left us in - whether its Aliens in some far off galaxy, some infected/zombies in a post apocalyptic earth, an Army at war (pick your time period), some mythological/fantasy beasts etc etc...

Remember when you used to wish that the in-game cutscenes were the actual graphics? Now they are! Man, I love nostalgia.

@nessisonett Double Dragon I & II, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, The Legend of Zelda I & II, Section Z, Gradius, Life Force, Zanac, Contra, River City Ransom, Gotcha, RBI Baseball, Bases Loaded, Top Gun I & II, Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Rad Racer I & II. Out of 678 NES games released in North America the majority of them were not platformers. While they weren't a minority they also weren't the most prevalent kind of game on the platform.

If you really analyze how games were back in the 80's 90's, and early 2000's compared to now consider this. DLC as we know it today back then became a sequel to the title you enjoyed or a second release of the same title much like we saw with Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Champion Edition, and Street Fighter II Turbo. If you were to take the cost those games as new, totalled them together, and then adjusted for inflation the total would be quite expensive. Taking a base game like Street Fighter V comparably and adding in the DLC over its lifetime while I have not put the figures together probably would net a similar result. The advantage of DLC is that while you initially bought the base game Capcom gave you the ability to squeeze more life out of your purchase as a cost whereas prior to these practices you had to purchase a brand new copy of the revised game altogether. I feel for most people the optics of DLC while people dislike microtransactions make sense compared to feeling like they have to buy another game just to get the upgraded content and the added content usually costs less than buying a brand new title. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages however I don;t think the way things used to be would go over so well with people any longer.

The first game I played was Space Invaders in 1978 and I’ve never stopped since.

I was at a Pokémon championship a couple years back and a guy said it must be amazing to have been a Pokémon fan right from the start. Boy did that make me feel old, lol. 😅

@NevG I mean, Zelda II is literally a 2D platformer. While, yes, many games are not 2D platformers, loads were, especially licensed games. My uncles used to tell me of the days when they’d rent games from the local Blockbuster and they’d primarily stock movie tie-ins, most of which were platformers of some kind. They just didn’t stock more niche games. I’m not trying to slag off the NES, hell I’ve had plenty fun with eccentric titles like Sweet Home and Crystalis. That being said, there just wasn’t the same wide variety of games there are now, which is perfectly OK as technology has advanced. It’s the exact same as how 99% of N64 games were 3D platformers of some sort.

@nessisonett
I’m gonna jump in and say that’s not true about the breadth of games available back in the day. On my ZX Spectrum I could play countless types of games. And with other systems readily available like arcade, handheld and consoles, just about every genre is accounted for plus many that have since fallen by the wayside.

@nessisonett Zelda II might have some platforming within it however it is not the core of its overall mechanic. It's more of an "Adventure" or "Action RPG" before they really were cemented as a genre. That being said "At least compared to the NES days when every game was a 2D platformer" sounds completely different than "While, yes, many games are not 2D platformers, loads were, especially licensed games." The only reason I responded to your comment is the fact that it was not true and easily dispelled with a brief Google search. I respect your perception of what you experienced however the facts are the facts. Two things hindered the variety of games available. Technology was one and the other was the newness of videogames and storytelling being put together to allow the player to be immersed in a full narrative experience. Itis just as difficult to compare a '57 Chevrolet Corvette to a 2020 Chevrolet COrvette Stingray. Similar products for different generations relative to when they were designed and engineered for the public to enjoy. One of those paved the way for what was to come and the current Corvette wouldn't exist without the experiences had in creating it's predecessor.

The glory days of gaming comes tomorrow with new games. Its not today or yesterday I was around before the birth of video games. Humans and gaming goes back thousands of years Its always fun to pull out that trunk and revisit the past and remember good old times. Its also a flaw to get stuck in the past and not make new memories each day as much as we can.

@NevG I was being facetious and exaggerating. I don’t literally mean that every NES game was a 2D platformer.

You can keep your loot boxes and micro-transactions. I despise that crap.

But major content paid DLC add ons, bug fixes, free updates and giveaways? Yeah, that's a nice thing I would have liked. The way Nintendo released all those Splatoon 1 and 2 maps for free is way better than old school COD and Halo map packs. DLC expansions like we get in some games, adding hours of story and even entirely new game modes for a fraction of the cost of a new game would have been great.

But the thing is - I'd have killed for the Switch as a kid. And my parents would have liked it too. I always wanted to have both a portable and a console and divided my limited gaming between them. For a birthday present or a reward for a good report card, I'd have to choose a game for one or the other. But the Switch is both!

And other quality of life improvements - rechargeable batteries, wireless controllers, online multiplayer, internal memory, standardized cables... all these things are much much much better today than in the past. I do not miss short controller cables, composite AV, big bulky CRT TVs, memory cards, AA batteries, and every device ever having its own proprietary charging/power cable.

I still have a small crate full of random power cables in storage somewhere....

Never went to an old arcade I see.

Ill take me growing up with crash and spyro and granturismo over any newer games.

No nostalgia here. Gaming is better than it's ever been. And on top of all the new games, you can still play all the old ones too.

Not to mention game development is something small studios and even individuals can do now. It's opened video games up to a massive range of variety and smaller, more easily digestible experiences. You will never convince me there was a "Golden Age" for gaming. If anything, we're in it.

I see some comments saying gaming isn't what it used to be or that it's not as exciting as it used to be, but I think that's more a symptom of growing up and tastes changing. I know I don't enjoy video games as much anymore, not even the ones I used to (and still to an extent) love.

But good video games are made all the time. You just have to find them.

Started playing games when I was really young in the 8-bit era, was old enough to truly appreciate and fall in love with the hobby during the 16-bit 'console war.' I wouldn't trade for any other time. The following gen after that was also really good. Those two eras saw by far the most creativity and because gaming was as mainstream as it is now there was as much noise over idiotic stuff. I definitely miss those simpler times. The only genre I enjoy more today is sports, that's it, but even the new sports games the devs find a way to mess up with stupid microtransactions.

I think the main issue with memories of old gaming, is that its a lot harder to repeat that awe inspiring moment, we've had at different times in our gaming lives. The incremental jumps between generations have become smaller, while games (although capable of new things) tend to be a formula that you can trace back...

I still play Streets Of Rage 2, yet i'll probably be slightly disappointed in SOR 4, no matter how good it is, as barring that beautiful tinge of nostagia, it wont do that much differently.

Some key moments this gen have been nice... Seeing Elite Dangerous and No Mans Sky for all its problems, bring the original premise of Elite from the BBC Micro to modern tech and create a living universe is astounding.

Even something relatively mundane as Football Manager is quite an achievement. The original game of that name was a revelation when you could actually watch match highlights.. The "management" part was basically buy/sell and select ya team. Yet now ya see the modern version and its depth is quite rediculous...

I dont think i'd change what i've experienced personally: couch sessions with friends after school, playing games with my family, even the anticipation and then (regular) disappoinment when the cassette wouldn't load up on my C64... However i can't help but have a small tinge of envy when you see what the equivalent 10 year old sees now and thats just from a visual stand point. Just imagine what he gets to see when he gets to my current age, I mean i'll be near 80 by then, still playing probably...

I might even have completed the Witcher 3 and all the DLC by then.....

@TheArt oh they aren't as popular, you're really reaching now, Mario Kart 8 on Switch has outsold RDR2 and FIFA on PS4, I also finished GTAV on both PS3 and PS4 is that popular enough for you and does anyone truly believe Fortnite would be as popular if you had to pay £50 up front?

You're way too defensive over RDR2 and I'm not here to argue its merits, if you enjoy then that's great but I stand by what I said, its core gameplay loop is the same as GTA3

I recon I would’ve paid Some micro transactions back in the day for some of the Goldeneye cheats that were impossible to unlock (before Rare released the button combos to unlock them years after release)

I don't agree.

Games these days, whilst excellent in some departments, lack a lot of charm that older games had.

Old games had to rely on storytelling, and imagination, something children have oodles of, and growing up with my imagination soaring playing games on systems such as the Sega Master System, Megadrive, NES, SNES and onwards was a great memory. Sure, now looking back on some of these titles, they didn't stand up, but at the time, they were amazing, as my childlike brain turned elements of these basic games into vibrant characters in my head, with a thrilling storyline, I was pulled in.

Sure today, we have the graphics, we have the storytelling, but games are rife with adverts, product placements, microtransactions and doesn't leave a whole lot up to the imagination. This is great for adults, but I think children get a worse deal.

@carlos82 Yes true, I'm reaching because you are also always reaching with your criticism of RDR2 every chance you get on any article way more than anyone on this site. I mean saying something as false as its gameplay being the same as GTA3 is on another level of reaching.

Absolutely not, I def wouldn't trade in growing up with Atari, Segas and then PlayStation.. Ghouls n Ghosts, Joust, Crystal Castles, seeing games like Sonic, WipEout, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil etc etc for the first time and being amazed by how powerful each console got.

I could never ever trade that in for advert filled mobile games, microtransactions and free to play rip offs, a lot of the younger gen (and adults tbf) dont appreciate or have the patience for a good single player game, they just want to log onto Fortnite or COD and just be toxic..

@TheArt I wasn't even criticising that game here, I was using it as an example because it has a very recent entry and that structure can be traced back so far. I'm not saying it plays the same as GTA3 as that would be nonsense, even San Andreas doesn't play the same as GTA 3. I mean its core gameplay design is the same as GTA3 and consequently every subsequent GTA game and the first RDR. Such as going to the letter on the map to start a mission, before travelling to where the mission will actually take place with them often ending in a shootout or police chase, rinse and repeat whilst moving across the map. Of course there have been advancements in the controls, graphics and storytelling and other side activities but the core framework is still there.

Often as well you'll find with me is that the games I criticise most are those that I like but want them to be better (even if general consensus is that they're pretty much perfect) and yes there is a lot to love about that game, such as it's open world been beyond anything else I've played, in both how it looks and reacts to your actions, its story and musicand how it does make you care about the characters involved

Disagree. If you'd have grown up when I did you could have been lucky enough to have had Sensible World of Soccer on Amiga instead of FIFA 20. You could have had Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past and classic Mario and Sonic. I was kept entertained for hours by those, as I was with the Dizzy games on my ZX Spectrum and NHLPA Hockey on my SNES. Later on PES, Vice City and THPS3 on PS2. Being an 80's kid I also had classic arcade machines to play as well.

There are some amazing games nowadays, but no better or worse than what's come before (apart from graphics of course, but they've all been cutting edge back in the day, things just progress).

This ain't it chief

@carlos82 You've explained this to me countless times but I don't know how else you want their games to play. Every game pretty much maintains their core gameplay since whenever. The next Uncharted will still have you shooting mercenaries looking for treasure, TLOU2 will still have you shooting zombies and trying to survive. Persona is still maintaining turn-based, do you call that out too? The next GOW or HZD will pretty much have you doing the same thing albeit with new variety of enemies or worlds because they're fantasy based. There's only so much Rockstar can do with their games trying to emulate real life.

I grew up by Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix since PS1 / Arcade era (2003) and still play DDR Arcade until today.
I really miss old DDR with very great songs selection than nowadays DDR with bunch of weird songs from Vocaloid, Blah Western licensed songs, etc.

I still prefer old games than new games due offer something special in my heart.

Some of those games you mentioned like For Honor and Steep aren't better than their classic counterparts like Street Fighter 2 or 1080 Snowboarding. The graphics are better but the gameplay is not as engaging. Even with updates they would not have kept me more occupied than my MegaDrive or N64 games. And LOL at getting stuck in the Water Temple.

I don't, while modern games look great and are still fun there is also a tonne of nasty business practices that i wish never happened, Microtransactions, loot boxes and the ship it now, patch it later mentality many publishers and developers have just for examples

I actually feel sorry for people growing up in the modern gaming era, yeah the NES games might not look as nice as modern systems games but at least it was just clean plain fun and when you brought a ganeyou got a full game, not 20% of one with the rest as "paid DLC"

@Fandabidozi we are in a losing battle. In almost every comment section the computers back in the day have largely been forgotten. When we were playing a variety of genres on the specy, C64 or Amstrad - Nes gamers played a few platformers.

It's a pity, history is written by the winners. In this scenario it's Nintendo.

@Grindagger Your comment needs 500 Upvotes.

@themcnoisy Mario was a lot better than Chuckie Egg, Joust, Gianna Sisters, Chuck Rock, Prince of Persia, Ruffian, or any other mascot platformer of the time. Only one that came close was Sonic.

@Wesker That's debatable. Rik Dangerous, Magic Land Dizzy and Turrican are 3 games that instantly stand out which are arguably better than Mario. Off the top of my head - Elite, Lazer Squad, Head over Heals, Robocop are all arguably better.

I do love smb3 though, it's by far my favourite Nes game by a mile. On the CPC I would go for the more elaborate text adventures and Elite was unbelievable for an 8 bit game.

Opposite take.... I’m so glad I started with a Commodore 64 and ended up here.... starting with fortnite and FUT as the benchmark.... no ta. Modern games are better appreciated after a journey and old games are better appreciated When you were there first time round. I see people all the time say ** hasn’t aged well.... I boot it up and it still wipes floor with most modern games.

Games need to be fun and spark something like a good movie or album... classic games are every bit as good as they were.

Been playing since late 70s and nothing can take away the nostalgia of being the first to complete an arcade game while being cheered on by your friends in the local cafe /arcade... Splatterhouse, rygar, kung foo fighter were my claims to fame. Sure games are much prettier now but the game play and the environments back then hold so many more memories than anything in recent memory.

Gonna leave this here

Im 42 and SO glad i'm not growing up with games in this era. Everything was in moderation back then. Cartoons started at 4.00 and finished at 5.10pm for John Craven's Newsround, giving me plenty of time to attempt Jetpac or Wonderboy in Monsterland between homework time and Dr Who at 7.30pm. There was a limit to the entertainment content I had access to. Now we have streams upon streams of 24 hour channels, 200hr+ games, unlimited movies/series... its just too much. So glad I grew up with my Speccy, Master System n Snes. I got to experience the classics and still dip into the likes of God of War or Marvels Spidey or whatever new game I particularly like the look of. Reminiscing playing my top 50 16-bit console games seems to be far more appealling than my nephew remembering 900hrs he ploughed into overwatch.

And I wish I could have played Crash or Ocarina of Time when I was a kid growing up.
That is how time rolls

@carlos82
Dude don’t waste your precious time trying to explain your point of view, which you’ve made abundantly clear, to the monkey. You could spend dozens of hours and draw numerous pretty little pictures and yet he/she wouldn’t get it. After all how can you even counter the growing hair argument (absolute revelation in gameplay mechanics)!!! Says it all really...

You grew up in a golden age of gaming and you wish you grew up now? The magic of that first glimpse Hyrule field or that first kill in Goldeneye will be lost on kids today.
There was something so special about being a part of the pioneer period of 3D gaming.
Can't you just appreciate that you can buy all the games you want now? I love gaming today but this article is a non starter and probably just borne out of nothing much to do or report on!