points by forgetfreeman 2 days ago | 0 comments
This is a relatively recent attitude. OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back through some combination of novel game mechanics, setting, and storyline pretty much every title every time, and if a game didn't deliver it didn't sell.
[–] parineum 2 days ago
I don't expect my hair blown back, I'm just looking for something novel. I play a lot of half-baked, buggy titles because they have some interesting angle.
[–] forgetfreeman 2 days ago
Fair, a lot has changed in the space over the last 45 years. Take the proliferation of titles that are basically just you having a job as an example. That shit absolutely would not scan with older gaming audiences. Why it became popular is a complete mystery to me. Audience expectations for their entertainment dollar spent have definitely declined sharply.
[–] BigTTYGothGF 2 days ago
> That shit absolutely would not scan with older gaming audiences
Are you quite certain about that? https://archive.org/details/Lemonade_Stand_1979_Apple
[–] ThrowawayR2 2 days ago
That's an edutainment game for early grade schoolers. (I should know; I played it in that era.) Nothing in it would hold an adult's attention.
[–] BigTTYGothGF 2 days ago
"Older" in this context is "the gaming audience of 45 years ago".
[–] forgetfreeman 2 days ago
Yeah, that's me. I played Lemonade Stand on an apple some software salesman hustled the local school board into buying, and understand that's the only market that "game" sold into, so it's got more in common with spreadsheet software than PacMan, and certainly isn't relevant to a discussion of popular games and gaming in the 80s. Edit: I wish I'd checked your username before I bothered engaging.
[–] BigTTYGothGF 2 days ago
> OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back .... pretty much every title every time
OG gamer here (started on the Fairchild Channel F). This is absurd.
What is true is that the hardware rapidly advanced, and as programmers got familiar with each platform the software also advanced, but the shelves were full of stinkers and disappointments and copycats.
That is not my experience having gamed "seriously" since 1992. Everyone has different tastes. And besides folks over identifying with a console or platform, I recall most folks just trying a lot of different things then settling into what they enjoyed.
Sports games in particular have always been popular through many phases of low/no innovation because that just wasn't a priority to most of that demographic.
Your expectations remind me more of GameGate than 90s and oughts era gaming.