Gaming's Greatest Generation

Posted by Zonk on Saturday August 27, 2005 @12:28AM from the sacrificed-so-you-don't-have-to dept.

The Escapist has an article up discussing what they refer to as The Greatest Generation of Games, ala the people who fought in World War II. From the article: "The decade between the Fall of Atari and the Rise of Doom was a dark age for many gaming companies, as wave after wave perished in an onslaught of returns and red ink. Arcade gaming vanished, seemingly, overnight. Computer gaming seemed like it was going to be relegated to geeks; console gaming, to children. But just as modern society was birthed only after the fall of Rome swept away Antiquity, so, too, modern gaming was born from the ashes of the Golden Age, with products from upstart companies like Nintendo, Sega, and Electronic Arts."

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Pedantically correcting info by FromWithin · 2005-08-27 01:27 · Score: 2, Informative

What a ridiculously short article. I'd argue that gaming on the ST and Amiga was far more influential to games today (many developers these days established themselves on those machines).

But anyway:
"KQIV was the first adventure game to feature a female hero"

Plundered Hearts by Infocom predates this with a female hero. It was released in 1987.

Bah. Humbug and all that. I'm in a miserable mood today. Sorry.