"Old Skool" the new "New School"?

Lets face it: no matter how much PS3, X-Box, or Wii you play, the guy playing SEGA Genesis will always be the coolest out of the group.

 

Now that above statement might not exactly be true, but it might have a little more truth than some believe.

 

I personally believe that the Grandfather generation of gaming is the best generation of gaming. we're talking about a golden age where nobody is complaining about crappy graphics, or crappy camera angles. no games with good ideas get ruined for being implemented poorly. if a game suck, it sucks for a good reason. We're talking about a generation where you could pick up a random game off the shelf and not have to worry about explicit gore, gratuitous sex, or any of that. We're talking about games where you can look at the cover, determine the genre of game that you are about to purchase. and buy it soley on that.

 

I think that diversity in games is good, but today we have TOO much diversity... too many people play too many games in too many different ways... im sure alot of you will disagree with me here, but im sure some will understand. what happened to the side-scrolling fighting game? i miss my streets of rage, or golden axe, or even the spiderman games! anybody could make a good game, as long as it played like streets of rage. you didnt like it? you could try a sidescroller like mario, or sonic, or alex kidd, or kid chameleon, all of them excellent choices. 

 

I think that the best part of the grandfather Generation is the fact that there were nohardcore games! thats right, you heard me. No. Hardcrore. Games. there were no hardcore gamers, no casuals, none of it. Anybody could play any game, and alot of people did. I miss the two-player game, with no split-screen. you would have two people on screen and you would actually have to work together and stay together to advance! imagine that... granted nowadays we have online (not that you are always close as a group, with people all over the place)... but lets be real, does that REALLY feel as good as playing with someone right next to you and having that communication factor there?

 

I think that everyone should kick the current gen, leave the next gen, and upgrade to the classic generations. The generation where a movie game didnt mean an instant suck, a generation where in order to beat a game, you had to be completely in the zone, because there were rarely any saves, and you had to really focus on winning to beat the game. the sense of beating a game in one sitting is just so much more gratifying. That sense of fear you get when your on the last boss with only 2 lives left and a muti-million point score, knowing that if you mess up, you'll have to start the game all over, from scratch. THAT is what I consider gaming. and THAT is what I want to play. 

 

Alot of you guys can disagree and go "hey ill have my halo" or your 3d mario or your metal gear solid, and thats fine. This is just one man's opinion on what i believe was the best generation of gaming, and I just felt it should be appreciated as such.

 

duffman out.