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Post by johnspartan on Jun 19, 2017 4:41:04 GMT
Normal teens and Maisie Williams, too, for some reason. Most of them like it and don't act like little jerks. I was pleasantly surprised by their reactions.
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 22, 2017 10:05:01 GMT
Yeah, some games on NES are timeless. because i would imagine the typical young person who whines about old systems probably only looks at graphics. sure, modern graphics typically makes games better in general but that's not always the case. for me personally... if there is one game that stuck with me the most on the NES in the long term it's "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out". I like Tetris to but that was always more of a Gameboy thing for me personally. but after seeing the video... i never realized that some of the games i had were amongst the best sellers on there like Excitebike as i remember liking that quite a bit back in the day when i was a kid but i am not sure i would think all that much of it today. who knows, maybe i should fire it up on the emulator to for old times sake  in the video it shows... 'we asked 11 teens if they'd heard of the following NES games' and it's not surprising everyone of them knew Mario as Mario is most affiliated with the Nintendo brand name as not to know that much you would likely know very little to nothing about video games in general. also, in that video it was kinda funny watching some of them try to figure out where the cartridge goes and even the ones that figured that out pretty quickly forgot to press it down ; but in their defense i would imagine a lot of people would miss that step as i likely would have to had i not used that system back in the day as it's just a odd process as normally you just insert the cartridge and that's it and you power it on but not with NES. it's funny though how that blowing on the cartridge must have been pretty common knowledge as i used to do that occasionally to except i would not blow hard on it but slowly up close for moisture on it a bit. p.s. ill be 38 later this year so i am basically old enough to remember it back in the day. but we only had ours fairly briefly in the early 1990's. nowadays i just use RetroArch emulator on PC (i.e. retroarch.com/ ) to play NES games like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out using a wireless XBox360 controller. Yeah, but i think Maisie Williams seems nicer than most people in general. as for the jerks thing... when they are on camera i am guessing the typical person is less likely to start going off and whining about old systems etc vs if they where just with their friends or making random posts online about it. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jun 23, 2017 3:12:39 GMT
I think retro gaming has set in, finally, as perfectly acceptable.
Chess, backgammon, Tetris, checkers, SMB3, games are games are games.
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Post by Utpe on Jun 23, 2017 18:27:02 GMT
I bet if you stuck an older console like an Atari or an Intellivision in front of them, their opinions of retro gaming would be the complete opposite.
The NES was one of the first 8-bit consoles. The graphics and overall gameplay were a huge step up from anything invented prior, with maybe the exception of the Commodore 64. Even then, it was more of a computer than a console you hooked up to your TV.
I'd like to see them play something like Pong and not be bored to tears.
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 24, 2017 5:29:25 GMT
I think retro gaming has set in, finally, as perfectly acceptable. Chess, backgammon, Tetris, checkers, SMB3, games are games are games. Tetris is timeless. in fact, i just fired up the NES version of Tetris hours ago on the RetroArch emulator for the PC. only obvious issue is the XBox360 controller's d-pad handicaps me as it's harder on your thumbs and does not seem to be as quick/consistent to react given it's so-so design as it's obvious things are much quicker to respond when playing on a actual Gameboy Advance SP or NES gamepad. just earlier (June 25th 2017) i got a 206,010 score on NES Tetris but i am sure i can go higher if i put more time into it (along with having a more precise controller instead of the XBox360's) as my all-time highest Tetris score on original gameboy cartridge is 362,588 which i did back on July 18th 2010 (technically, i was using a Gameboy Advance SP system when i got that score but it's using the original gameboy cartridge). i have not played the NES version of Tetris in a long time prior to recently here. EDIT: on June 26th 2017 on the Gameboy Advance SP (using original Gameboy Tetris cartridge) i got 315,465 which would make it my 11th highest Gameboy Tetris score ever. i think if my hands were a bit quicker i could manage the higher speeds a bit better which i think is why i ultimately need to load up on Tetris's (the 4 line clears) as much as possible before the speed of the game increases too much as once you hit 100 lines it jumps to level 10 and then 110 lines to level 11 and so on til 200 lines at level 20 and remains there (i have cracked 200 lines and level 20 before). after a certain point my hand speed starts to become a issue. i don't think it's out of the question i could crack 400,000+ but it surely won't be easy for me. i don't see myself beating that 362,588 score i got back in 2010 anytime soon though as given the way things are for me i pretty much have to load up on Tetris's earlier on in the game before the speed ramps up. i always start at level 9 on Gameboy as that speed i can easily handle and getting Tetris's on there i think is 12,000 point each and once it levels up it's even more as i want to say 15k or so on level 10 and so on. also, even though you can increase the speed on Gameboy beyond level 9 it's basically pointless since it does not increase your score like it does with the NES version which means you might as well just start off on the typical max of Level 9. hell, recently i was watching the championship match of NES Tetris from the year 2016 here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdfRQjb5o9k ; those guys make that look easy but i can tell they are WAY out of my league. funny thing is... that's actually interesting to watch but i suspect it will only be good for people who are familiar with the game. www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/king-of-the-block-meet-the-worlds-greatest-tetris-player-20141016# ; a little interview with the guy who seems to be considered the best Tetris player in the world (he's also the guy playing in that YouTube video i linked to). p.s. but in terms of Tetris in general... the original gameboy version is the one i played the most over the years. |
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Post by johnspartan on Jun 25, 2017 14:30:49 GMT
I think retro gaming has set in, finally, as perfectly acceptable. Chess, backgammon, Tetris, checkers, SMB3, games are games are games. Agreed. I look at Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Frogger and Tetris no differently than simple board games like checkers that will always be fun even though they're not new or fancy. |
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Post by johnspartan on Jun 25, 2017 14:35:04 GMT
I bet if you stuck an older console like an Atari or an Intellivision in front of them, their opinions of retro gaming would be the complete opposite. The NES was one of the first 8-bit consoles. The graphics and overall gameplay were a huge step up from anything invented prior, with maybe the exception of the Commodore 64. Even then, it was more of a computer than a console you hooked up to your TV. I'd like to see them play something like Pong and not be bored to tears. Agreed. Most Atari 2600 games don't hold up for me, anymore other than Yar's Revenge and Breakout. |
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Post by mslo79 on Jun 25, 2017 21:03:29 GMT
johnspartanAgreed. that was the first system i can barely remember using as a kid, but we had the 'Atari 2600 Jr', which according to Wikipedia says it came out in 1986 which i imagine we had one probably not much after that (i was born late 1979). Atari is pretty much a poor mans NES as nowadays when people look back to the old days i can't see many liking anything but the NES or newer Nintendo or Sega systems etc.
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