That quote...

I don't know why today's games are so inferior, maybe it's because the classics are just that -- classics.
...and the rest of it represents an opinion that's hard to take seriously, I feel. It's mainly the fault of nostalgia closing a person off to what today's games have to offer while simultaneously inflating the games central to that person's formative years. The timespan that the Digital Press reader was referring to in that quote is obviously irrelevant now when "classic gaming" today doesn't necessarily distinguish between the so-called "superior/inferior" console generations the individual in question was concerned about. Time renders everything retro eventually.