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Ah yes, the rosed tint of nostalgia can make any old muck seem great. The glitchy graphics, patchy controls and often the tediousness and mind numbing frustration tends to be forgotten about the games of yesteryear. I never understood the fascination for text based games either, they always seemed to me as the bottom rung of an already short ladder.
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Stranger wrote:Ah yes, the rosed tint of nostalgia can make any old muck seem great. The glitchy graphics, patchy controls and often the tediousness and mind numbing frustration tends to be forgotten about the games of yesteryear. I never understood the fascination for text based games either, they always seemed to me as the bottom rung of an already short ladder. Ever play any Infocom games? They were fantastic. Even Nethack and Rogue were great.
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Mister OYSTERHEAD! wrote:Stranger wrote:Ah yes, the rosed tint of nostalgia can make any old muck seem great. The glitchy graphics, patchy controls and often the tediousness and mind numbing frustration tends to be forgotten about the games of yesteryear. I never understood the fascination for text based games either, they always seemed to me as the bottom rung of an already short ladder. Ever play any Infocom games? They were fantastic. Even Nethack and Rogue were great. Sorry but he can't understand any game before Megaman 2. XD "Videogames are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n' roll." - Shigeru Miyamoto  Hail Slither, The Eternal Champion!
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FinalGamer wrote:Mister OYSTERHEAD! wrote:Stranger wrote:Ah yes, the rosed tint of nostalgia can make any old muck seem great. The glitchy graphics, patchy controls and often the tediousness and mind numbing frustration tends to be forgotten about the games of yesteryear. I never understood the fascination for text based games either, they always seemed to me as the bottom rung of an already short ladder. Ever play any Infocom games? They were fantastic. Even Nethack and Rogue were great. Sorry but he can't understand any game before Megaman 2. XD
I can too! It's just that the time before the NES era was a dark and barbaric time, with terrifying throwbacks that might some day have been a game roaming the planes of electronic stimulation.
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