I agree and half agree. I think with many of us we tend to look back at our childhood with rose colored glasses. We only have the good memories, and try not to remember the bad. We only remember the best retro games that we enjoyed, and not so much the crap. If you think about it, only about 2 or 3 out of 10 games or so then (and true today) were actually worth a play. There were literally THOUSANDS of crap games released.
For this console generation, retro gamers focus on the crap. So since they are focusing on the current crap it justifies playing retro games. The difference also is that you weed out several games from the retro generations that are so good, it makes the whole entire generation good when what you are really doing is cherry picking and ignoring all the crap.
Does that make any sense whatsoever,.
Another note about the article. It was mentioned that back then, there were genres/ideas/themes being CREATED. And now they are just using those themes. That's partly true because those generation consoles were somewhat expiremental. The video game industry was still in it's infancy. There are only so many different ways to make a game, and as things continue in the future they will just keep re-using those ideas until a completely different way to play video games comes around (aka Virtual Reality)
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