I think it might be because it made me feel like I was a kid again, care free, just having fun. Not that thats what a lot of game makers are looking for, with their Rated G games. But it’s one of the things that made me keep turning it on ever hour or so to beat a new course time score. XD; Maybe they should look into that instead.

Now that was fun.

Sure, they’re making everything look prettier now, but it’s still the same old concept. If you make it, they will play.

Of course, there will always be romhackers who push the boundaries of known hardware - the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST cracking groups often used to put self-made intros on their cracked software, containing great music and elaborate visuals that often (for me) caused the sound and graphics in the game look somewhat lackluster by comparison. I’ve seen a ZX Spectrum demo that copied the kind of things they used to do in those intros, and I have to admit that I was pretty much blown away by how little difference there was between the Amiga and Spectrum versions.

The old cry of “all graphics and no gameplay” may be a cliché, but it’s a cliché for a reason, and it’s one I happen to agree with wholeheartedly. I’ve always been of the opinion that people are forging ahead too quickly to really make proper use of what they already have, and to be honest, that rampant obsoletism is why I’m exclusively an emulation gamer nowadays.

Of course the problem with that is, eventually people stop making games / accessories / parts for it.