Its easy to blame the youth for being ignorant.

Keep in mind people are automatically spoiled in most cases just from being born in a certain era.

With general peer pressure and online gaming to keep up with your pals, there's little chance a young person will ever get the opportunity to explore retro games.

Its what you are exposed to in your formative years that will probably set your standards. Thats your reality, anything that came before your time is not your reality, especially when there is a "more advanced, prettier and better version out there already"


Much the same way you probably do not like the music or tv shows of your parents era.


I was gaming pre Atari 2600 on clone pong consoles. Witch pretty much means I witnessed a lot of evolution.

Because of this modern games are not any more special to me than retro-games. Not that I don't like modern games, I do but I am still blown away by 2600 Adventure and the 8-bit and 16-Phantasy Stars are still my favorite rpgs of all time.

On the other hand my brother and few other people my age who grew up with me have a disdain for anything not on the cutting edge. They have no appreciation for retro-games even though these are games they grew up playing. I am not talking about strictly 8 and 16 bit games. They find Xbox 1 and PS2 graphics way below standard.

So its not just the young kids who are to blame.

I often wonder how I never fell into that type of thinking.