You kids today wouldn\'t last five minutes back in 1984!!

Actually I do remember Stephen Baldwin for some reason.

...the horrible clothing-style, punks, Indiana Joneses, Star Warses etc.

Originally posted by luckee
We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could
never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!  

That made me laugh,so true.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Darth Joyda
BETA\'s were quickly over-run by VHS in the late 70\'s I think. My father still has a BETA-player somewhere.

Some question why VHS became so popular. BETA\'s offered better on-screen-quality, were small and cheaper. Or so I have been told.

Probably marketing and stuff.

Originally posted by Titan


Probably marketing and stuff.

Definately stuff

Trust me, I was there.

Originally posted by luckee

And we didn\'t have any fancy Sony Playstation
videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With
games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your
guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no
multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could
never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!

There\'s one problem in this message, though. The graphics, back then, were unbelievable. Back in 1984 Asteroids looked incredibly sweet. Why? They hadn\'t seen anything better. Simply said, Asteroids looks tedious and dull now, but it didn\'t back then.

Unreal Tournament 2003 looks sweet by today\'s standards. Doom III will look sweet by tomorrow\'s standards. In the future, even Doom III will look unrealistic and bad. But for us it looks golden. Get my point?

You just can not complain about graphics.

To an extent,But even when Pong,Space Invaders and asteroids where the shit,I never really looked at them and thought WOW look at those graphics.

The fact is those games kept me coming back for more. I wish I could say the same about todays games.

Just my opinion.

Ace

I think that is because they didn\'t finish,you can always try to beat your record but most games these days have ends which makes you feel like you don\'t need to come back.

Originally posted by Heat
I read the first 2 sentances and got bored.

And another thing, back in my day - we had attention spans!

ZING

-Eik