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As I was playing a copy of Capcom Generations 1 (a 1942 collection) I realized something. Not that I hadn't thought of it, but it started to ring true, most if not all of my older friends who I've known for quite awhile, seem to have forgotten about the awesome videogames we played as kids or have been brainwashed to not remeber them.
This disturbes me to quite a great degree. It seems people my age don't remeber those times. I feel most of it has to do with the general feeling that college age students have about video games; they're chilish and anyone associated with them is wasting their time. I talked to one of my buddies Jeremy, who I used to play Turtles in Time and Contra with, and he acted like he never remebered them. Even my sister, who used to play tons of older 2 play co-op games along side of me on the old NES, pretends like it was all just some dream.
Oh but it gets worse. It seems that even though I have friends who have forgotten about it, there are a few that remeber. Now one would think this would be a ray of hope. One would think, "Well, at least they still play games", but sadly I assume too much. The problem is that the games they like now are just drivel. Most of them have NBA,2K,2K1,2K2,2K3 and every other sports game incarnation or $10 bin game. What is happening?? I remeber when I was a kid, kids never liked crap (maybe because there was less availible or we just knew what was good). I remember talking to friends about Megaman, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Bros., Punch Out, Sunset Riders, Contra, and the list goes on and on. We all loved those games, and those same friends knew what games were crap (as in most games made by LJN on NES
) and seemed to know what good gaming was.
So what made my old friends change from a smart, educated, fun, and intelegent gamer, to a stuck up, forgettful, ignorant, bad taste gamer? oh_no
This disturbes me to quite a great degree. It seems people my age don't remeber those times. I feel most of it has to do with the general feeling that college age students have about video games; they're chilish and anyone associated with them is wasting their time. I talked to one of my buddies Jeremy, who I used to play Turtles in Time and Contra with, and he acted like he never remebered them. Even my sister, who used to play tons of older 2 play co-op games along side of me on the old NES, pretends like it was all just some dream.
Oh but it gets worse. It seems that even though I have friends who have forgotten about it, there are a few that remeber. Now one would think this would be a ray of hope. One would think, "Well, at least they still play games", but sadly I assume too much. The problem is that the games they like now are just drivel. Most of them have NBA,2K,2K1,2K2,2K3 and every other sports game incarnation or $10 bin game. What is happening?? I remeber when I was a kid, kids never liked crap (maybe because there was less availible or we just knew what was good). I remember talking to friends about Megaman, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Zelda, Mario Bros., Punch Out, Sunset Riders, Contra, and the list goes on and on. We all loved those games, and those same friends knew what games were crap (as in most games made by LJN on NES
) and seemed to know what good gaming was.So what made my old friends change from a smart, educated, fun, and intelegent gamer, to a stuck up, forgettful, ignorant, bad taste gamer? oh_no
).
