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Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
#265106 - 09/26/11 03:14 PM
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Have played a lot of the classics on MAME recently and realized while some have held up very well and still play great, some have not. I was surprised by playing some games that I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today... And conversely. I have found many games I wasn't into then, that I love now.
My graph of it all is on my MAME blog here...
http://mamezach.blogspot.com/
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Re: Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
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#265122 - 09/26/11 05:51 PM
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> I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today
I guess some of that disappointment might be attributed to not having the cabinet, controls and atmosphere of an arcade. 
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Re: Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
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#265126 - 09/26/11 06:42 PM
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> > I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today
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> I guess some of that disappointment might be attributed to not having the cabinet,
> controls and atmosphere of an arcade.
Yeah, very true. The 90s were way cool as well 
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Re: Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
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#265128 - 09/26/11 07:26 PM
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> > I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today
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> I guess some of that disappointment might be attributed to not having the cabinet,
> controls and atmosphere of an arcade.
Yeah. The ultimate judge of a game these days is playing it at CAX, or one of the few good arcades still around (e.g. Ground Control).
That said, I look for different things in gaming now than I did when I was 8 years old. I didn't "get" Tempest then; I very much do now. So I think his post has merit.
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Re: Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
[Re: pinzach]
#265162 - 09/27/11 04:58 AM
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> Have played a lot of the classics on MAME recently and realized while some have held
> up very well and still play great, some have not. I was surprised by playing some
> games that I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today... And
> conversely. I have found many games I wasn't into then, that I love now.
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> My graph of it all is on my MAME blog here...
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> http://mamezach.blogspot.com/
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Re: Argument Starter - a Graph of how Classic Games have held up
[Re: R. Belmont]
#265229 - 09/28/11 04:08 AM
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> > > I loved in the arcades in the 80s that I am disappointed in today
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> > I guess some of that disappointment might be attributed to not having the cabinet,
> > controls and atmosphere of an arcade.
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> Yeah. The ultimate judge of a game these days is playing it at CAX, or one of the few
> good arcades still around (e.g. Ground Control).
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> That said, I look for different things in gaming now than I did when I was 8 years
> old. I didn't "get" Tempest then; I very much do now. So I think his post has merit.
Tempest is one of my favorite games, I own the PC version, a friend gave me which I don't know were it is, Jaguar version (with soundtrack) and the PSX version that some of my friends programmed and did level layouts for it. I just wish I could have bought Tempest arcade machine off my friend when he sold it, but I couldn't afford it at the time.
Any arcade cabinet and real controls are better than anything you could ever play on a computer.
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