Who misses the old days?

[Masamunemaster]

and a game that I still cannot find anywhere...enhergiz(I think thats how its spelled), but I remeber getting to use cloud and sephiroth on it...I was happy

[Bolivar]

PC 360? Don't you mean 386? I loved my 286 & 386. 186, too, although the games weren't as good (Exception: DigDug).

I would probably say my best gaming days were also the PS1 days. The original Resident Evil series, Final Fantasy VII & VIII, the masses of half-decent local multiplayer games... good times, good times. And the variety is only matched by the PS2. The Xbox 360 doesn't have the variety, nor the Xbox 360 nor the PS3. If there was one thing the PS1/2 had, it was something of everything. If you liked a genre, there's a good chance they had more than a couple of decent games in it. Loved that.

Final Fantasy VII's blocky characters will always be, to me, the best ever. I think the fact that Lego Star Wars and Lego Indiana Jones sell so well has a lot to do with how they have blocky characters, too. I find the most immersive games were the ones that didn't have realistic anatomies.

Wow, an administrator/site staff that i agree with...

r and a game that I still cannot find anywhere...enhergiz(I think thats how its spelled), but I remeber getting to use cloud and sephiroth on it...I was happy

uh oh.

It's like an unwritten rule that if you bring up Ehrgeiz as anything other than a guilty pleasure, you WILL be assaulted by a herd of disenfranchised gaming cynics.

[Madame Adequate]

The old days? The old days are back when wireframe graphics were awesomely modern.

But I would agree that the PS1 was possibly my best era for gaming.

[Wolf Kanno]

I remember the days of the ATARI 2600 and playing Frogger or Star Wars... good times good times...

To me the "good old days" would be defined as the real console war between Sega and Nintendo and the days when the arcade scene was in its Renaissance period... so about 85-95 ah fun times indeed.

My favorite era would be 94-2000 the late SNES days the birth and death of the Sega Saturn and the entire PS1 era. We saw the rise of a few famous franchises in the world market; that to this day still define a console's success. Technology finally caught up with ideas and every system had something substantial to offer.

[Proxy]

old games >>>>>> new games.
end o' story.

[Loony BoB]

Oh, yeah, to all those people complaining about how he called it the "old days" - well, they aren't exactly the new days anymore, eh?

[o_O]

Pong on oscillator display or gtfo.

You mean Tennis For Two?

[Masamunemaster]

Oh, yeah, to all those people complaining about how he called it the "old days" - well, they aren't exactly the new days anymore, eh?

YAY...yeah you guys have no shame......LOL

NO Im not brown nosing gosh Im just tired at 5am

[leilei]

Playstation I never liked, especially due to its aggressive Sega-style marketing campaign and corny launch titles at the time. I'm talking back then recalling my first impressions of it though.

Back then I was mainly a PC/MAC nut, though I got a NES in '86 and played the usual Duck Hunt, Mario, etc. I really really liked Blaster Master. As for Final Fantasy I didn't get into that until 1992 with a brief rental of FF4. I got stuck and my rental was overdue so it was returned. Later, in 94 I had a Japanese friend who had FF6 (as well as other RPGs but they didn't interest me) and I borrowed that for a day and was hooked. A month later I completed the game.

I do miss gaming back then, when manuals had actual effort put into them and they would actually be read, when graphics were not #1 priority considering the little "40mhz-and-less" hardware popular out there, and when people online were 5322% more mature and literate than the usual internet of today.

[Nominus Experse]

Oh dear, I feel old...

[Wolf Kanno]

Oh dear, I feel old...

Tell me about it... I went and visited a place that had an awsome arcade that I spent my childhood in and its been reduced to nothing. I seriously miss the arcade scene. SF, SC, MK, and of course the almighty SNK cabinets of versatile fun Hell, even the DDR games are shoved in a small corner. I really miss the arcade scene

[Yar]

Old days to me means the likes of Genesis, NES, SNES, etc.

Those games are elite.

It seems they just put out these days.

[Skyblade]

The Genesis and SNES were the hallmarks of the golden age of gaming. A time before half the game got sucked away in load times, when games were about pure fun. The side-scrollers were wonderful. No one cared about Sonic or Mario's graphics, they just enjoyed the game. And then there were the RPGs, coming into their own. Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger are still some of the greatest RPGs of all time. Though I was never a huge fan of the particular genres, I remember enjoying sports games and racers (F-Zero was great) during the time of these consoles.

Is it any surprise that so many of these games are getting remade?

[Roto13]

Old days to me means the likes of Genesis, NES, SNES, etc.

Those games are elite.

It seems they just put out :skull::skull::skull::skull: these days.

They put out a lot of :skull::skull::skull::skull: in the early-mid 90s, too. A lot of forgettable :skull::skull::skull::skull:. That's the only reason it seems like games then were better than games today. Because you only think about the good ones.

[Big D]

They put out a lot of in the early-mid 90s, too. A lot of forgettable . That's the only reason it seems like games then were better than games today. Because you only think about the good ones.

Absolutely. There were countless lame, samey, totally unoriginal side-scrolling 2D platform games on the old consoles. For every Ecco the Dolphin or Jurassic Park there were fifty games like My Hero or Chuck Rock.