Andrew_New_Zealand
02-27-2007, 08:52 PM
(Replying to Rallion's question:"Would I go to VGL again?")
No, I couldn't pay that much to go again. I mean I didn't even want to go in the first place, but my Mum and Dad bought me the ticket.
Even though there was a time when video games were my life, these days I'm put off by some of the big, loud, super realistic games that have gradually come in, getting bigger and better and more reaslistic. I think I still liked many games of the Play Station 1, even though everything was going 3D at that time I guess, but the flashiness and slickness of the newer games, I don't know about. I saw the poster for video games live and the big picture of Mario and the Halo guy and thought, I don't know, this looks like its for today's gaming fans, not those who still long for the old days, the 80s and early 90s, the days of Sega Master System and Mega Drive (or you could say Sega's only real days, were the 80s and early 90s)
Yeah of course, Video Games Live did have the retro section, but it was mostly just like an entree wasn't it? Nostalgia. I don't really like seeing it as nostalgia so much. At least not with some of the great platform games that came later, like Rastan, Shinobi, Ghost 'n Goblins, Double Dragon. Even if they are more small and simple than the big 3D-games of today, I like them better, they're just more of an exciting experience.
I guess one thing I would've been sure to go to, would be a show with all those old games being presented in some cool arrangement, the mostly 2-dimensional or partly 3D games of old.
Its a bit like a cult-following, people who like mostly the old 2-demensional games, despite that "obviously" games have moved on and up to much higher levels of realism and everybody knows that "obviously" games of today are better. Some people say the only reason people like old games still is cause of old gooey feelings of nostalgia. I guess if thats true the kids of today wouldn't have any feelings for the games of old, cause they didn't grow up with them and have no nostalgia for them.
It reminds me of music and musical tastes. Some people were really big on the power rock music of the 80s or maybe the new wave electronic pop. And now days they look back on it, perhaps with feelings of nostalgia, but admit that today's music has moved on, or out-grown that phase and today's songs are better and about more real and important stuff than back then.
Hmmm, even then there are people who hold on to certain songs of the past as "Classics! That song is a Classic!. You can't touch it!". The same way some people would still hold on to old video games as "Classics!". But its still not really the same as what I have with old video games. And old music for that matter. I prefer a lot of music from the 80s. To bring up something interesting, I learned to love music from the 70s even though I didn't grow up with it so couldn't claim to have nostalgia with it. Though I could say some 70s music is similar enough to the 80s music and so the 70s music would create the same nostalgia and blend in my 80s music. As for 70s video games, well I guess a lot of those games, were one-screen games. Hmmm. I think theres not a great connection between 70s video games and my games of say mid to late 80s that I really liked. Like Shinobi, Rastan, Double Dragon.
Well, I also liked those, sideways-moving, guiding a little ship over hill-peaks and through caves, dodging rockets and dropping bombs on gun turrets..games like Scramble and Battle of Atlantis, Super Cobra from the earlier 80s. They're probably the oldest games I like as much as the Rastan style games, the biggest connection between the 70s games and the mid-80s games.
No, I couldn't pay that much to go again. I mean I didn't even want to go in the first place, but my Mum and Dad bought me the ticket.
Even though there was a time when video games were my life, these days I'm put off by some of the big, loud, super realistic games that have gradually come in, getting bigger and better and more reaslistic. I think I still liked many games of the Play Station 1, even though everything was going 3D at that time I guess, but the flashiness and slickness of the newer games, I don't know about. I saw the poster for video games live and the big picture of Mario and the Halo guy and thought, I don't know, this looks like its for today's gaming fans, not those who still long for the old days, the 80s and early 90s, the days of Sega Master System and Mega Drive (or you could say Sega's only real days, were the 80s and early 90s)
Yeah of course, Video Games Live did have the retro section, but it was mostly just like an entree wasn't it? Nostalgia. I don't really like seeing it as nostalgia so much. At least not with some of the great platform games that came later, like Rastan, Shinobi, Ghost 'n Goblins, Double Dragon. Even if they are more small and simple than the big 3D-games of today, I like them better, they're just more of an exciting experience.
I guess one thing I would've been sure to go to, would be a show with all those old games being presented in some cool arrangement, the mostly 2-dimensional or partly 3D games of old.
Its a bit like a cult-following, people who like mostly the old 2-demensional games, despite that "obviously" games have moved on and up to much higher levels of realism and everybody knows that "obviously" games of today are better. Some people say the only reason people like old games still is cause of old gooey feelings of nostalgia. I guess if thats true the kids of today wouldn't have any feelings for the games of old, cause they didn't grow up with them and have no nostalgia for them.
It reminds me of music and musical tastes. Some people were really big on the power rock music of the 80s or maybe the new wave electronic pop. And now days they look back on it, perhaps with feelings of nostalgia, but admit that today's music has moved on, or out-grown that phase and today's songs are better and about more real and important stuff than back then.
Hmmm, even then there are people who hold on to certain songs of the past as "Classics! That song is a Classic!. You can't touch it!". The same way some people would still hold on to old video games as "Classics!". But its still not really the same as what I have with old video games. And old music for that matter. I prefer a lot of music from the 80s. To bring up something interesting, I learned to love music from the 70s even though I didn't grow up with it so couldn't claim to have nostalgia with it. Though I could say some 70s music is similar enough to the 80s music and so the 70s music would create the same nostalgia and blend in my 80s music. As for 70s video games, well I guess a lot of those games, were one-screen games. Hmmm. I think theres not a great connection between 70s video games and my games of say mid to late 80s that I really liked. Like Shinobi, Rastan, Double Dragon.
Well, I also liked those, sideways-moving, guiding a little ship over hill-peaks and through caves, dodging rockets and dropping bombs on gun turrets..games like Scramble and Battle of Atlantis, Super Cobra from the earlier 80s. They're probably the oldest games I like as much as the Rastan style games, the biggest connection between the 70s games and the mid-80s games.