old games were fucking cheap, in retrospect.

[The Mask]

i am playing my megadrive collection thing on xbox and just running through sonic the hedgehog and i can't believe some of the sly shit it has to beat you. crap just popping up out of nowhere, or like tunnels that send you spinning at a million miles an hour until you fly out and hit something you had no idea was coming and die. i think you needed a certain mental resolve back in the day to complete games compared to now.

[Emperor Smeat]

Can't forget about the Megaman, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden series since those were tougher than majority of games out since Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube Era.

Megaman 9 got low scores from some reviewers for being too hard compared to games today.

[Indifferent Clox]

Yeah, but then you have demon souls

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Six weeks with nothing to do every summer helped with such games, too.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Also, I came in here to point out that old games were emphatically not cheap, as Yoshi's Island cost £55 new, and some paid as much as £100 for Ocarina of Time, I hear.

[Indifferent Clox]

Yeah i also thought this reffered to the price at first

[The Mackem]

I remember getting Star Wars on the NES bought for me for like £40-£50, that's before inflation. As a comparison I think a Mars Bar cost like 25p/30p tops back then.

[The Mask]

yeah games used to cost fucking craploads :$ think i got street fighter 2 turbo for 50 quid

[The Mask]

but like a few years before i used to buy commodore 64 games for 3.99 a pop :'(

[The Jayman]

Can't forget about the Megaman, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden series since those were tougher than majority of games out since Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube Era.

Megaman 9 got low scores from some reviewers for being too hard compared to games today.


http://www.pwned.com/gamecovers/nintendo/1e50dda6d50337842b4f2e9b0b8b362b-Ghosts_n_Goblins.jpg

Hardest game I remember owning

[The Mackem]

I used to hate spikes in old games. If anything was going to kill me it was spikes.

[Kane Knight]

i am playing my megadrive collection thing on xbox and just running through sonic the hedgehog and i can't believe some of the sly shit it has to beat you. crap just popping up out of nowhere, or like tunnels that send you spinning at a million miles an hour until you fly out and hit something you had no idea was coming and die. i think you needed a certain mental resolve back in the day to complete games compared to now.

Oldschool games were quite often about pattern memorization and shit. Though I prefer games more now that they're less rote behaviour.

Totally miss hard games, though. Actually challenging, mind. Not that retarded Demon's Souls shit.

[LuigiD]

I feel like back in the day when I would beat a game..there was a bigger sense of accomplishment that came with it. Today, beating a game just makes me go "well..that crap was easy..50 dollars for that? fuck!"