sladesurfer
10-08-2006, 09:37 AM
:D http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4401
I've found myself playing Uno for hours on end (a card game that I used play quite frequently as a child), I've been running down corridors in Doom, throwing punches in Street Fighter II and running from ghosts in Pac-Man. How is that I spend $310 on my XBOX 360 Premium system and find myself addicted to games from many moons ago? The relatively low prices could be one reason, but the nostalgia factor and the genuinely great gameplay of some of those older games is also a huge selling point. But according to Microsoft’s Greg Canessa, the nostalgia factor can be a double-edged sword:
:( Everything Old is Old Again http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=13967&page=1
“The problem with nostalgia is that sometimes you have this mental image of how much fun a game was when you played it back in the coin-op days," he says, "but then, nine out of 10 times, when you try it again, it disappoints. You play it for a few minutes and then you're like, okay, I'm kind of sorry I tried it again because I had better memories of it. The truth is the game still kicks butt; it just needs a little updating for the hi-def generation -- maybe tightening up the graphics, maybe adding a background. It's all very subtle and you can even toggle off the upgrades if you want to play the old-school version.”
I've found myself playing Uno for hours on end (a card game that I used play quite frequently as a child), I've been running down corridors in Doom, throwing punches in Street Fighter II and running from ghosts in Pac-Man. How is that I spend $310 on my XBOX 360 Premium system and find myself addicted to games from many moons ago? The relatively low prices could be one reason, but the nostalgia factor and the genuinely great gameplay of some of those older games is also a huge selling point. But according to Microsoft’s Greg Canessa, the nostalgia factor can be a double-edged sword:
:( Everything Old is Old Again http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=13967&page=1
“The problem with nostalgia is that sometimes you have this mental image of how much fun a game was when you played it back in the coin-op days," he says, "but then, nine out of 10 times, when you try it again, it disappoints. You play it for a few minutes and then you're like, okay, I'm kind of sorry I tried it again because I had better memories of it. The truth is the game still kicks butt; it just needs a little updating for the hi-def generation -- maybe tightening up the graphics, maybe adding a background. It's all very subtle and you can even toggle off the upgrades if you want to play the old-school version.”