People often call me a retro gamer.
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People often call me a retro gamer.
The truth is I’m just old enough to remember most video games when they were new.
No, I wasn’t alive when Pong, Breakout, or Space Invaders were the centre of the universe. But I did own an Atari 2600 when it was new. And, more importantly, I was around when arcades were everywhere.
This is why I kind of hate retro gaming culture and its obsession with all things Nintendo. Because Nintendo was always just a tiny slice of the medium. Entire genres never made it there.
Case in point: Mysterious Stones. A dungeon crawler lifted straight out of the Indiana Jones zeitgeist. Built by a little studio called Technos.
Who would later make an obscure, utterly insignificant title called Double Dragon. I’m sure you haven’t heard of it.
Mysterious Stones never landed on the NES. It never had a home release at all. If you wanted to play it, you hauled yourself to the local mall and fed it quarters.
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People often call me a retro gamer.
The truth is I’m just old enough to remember most video games when they were new.
No, I wasn’t alive when Pong, Breakout, or Space Invaders were the centre of the universe. But I did own an Atari 2600 when it was new. And, more importantly, I was around when arcades were everywhere.
This is why I kind of hate retro gaming culture and its obsession with all things Nintendo. Because Nintendo was always just a tiny slice of the medium. Entire genres never made it there.
Case in point: Mysterious Stones. A dungeon crawler lifted straight out of the Indiana Jones zeitgeist. Built by a little studio called Technos.
Who would later make an obscure, utterly insignificant title called Double Dragon. I’m sure you haven’t heard of it.
Mysterious Stones never landed on the NES. It never had a home release at all. If you wanted to play it, you hauled yourself to the local mall and fed it quarters.
And all of the interesting games for the PC-98. I get the impression that most of them still haven't been translated.
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And all of the interesting games for the PC-98. I get the impression that most of them still haven't been translated.
@rastilin Nope, not by a long shot.
And actually, a lot of international titles don’t have translations. Korean DOS games are pretty damn awesome, and few of them are in English. And they’re amazing.
