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Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the night-and-day dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A cool comparison of video games from the same genre, the only difference is about 20 years of technical development. The Bard's tale vs World of Warcraft is really funny."

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  1. Screenshots by JonathanR · · Score: 5, Funny

    What, you can now believe what you see on the box-art?

  2. Re: Flight Simulators by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    > The only thing that hasn't advanced for some reason is the way human necks are modeled. Flight sim cockpit views still shift around as if the player's head is a perfect sphere mounted on top of a pole.

    Yours isn't?

    What planet are you posting from?

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  3. Except that Bards Tale wasn't online... by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bards Tale, which was also recently remade as a non-party RPG wasn't online. A fairer comparison would have been Playing Army (running around the streets with sticks for guns) versus World of Warcraft. The prime difference being that when your mum called you in for tea you had to go. Whereas World of Warcraft players are sustained by an IV feeding beef stew directly into their bodies and hence never have to leave their desks. Ever.

  4. Re:rogue by Sique · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the end Diablo and Diablo II are just fancy GUIs for Nethack.

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  5. Re:More accurately: Game Graphics Now and 20yrs ag by PrawnJuice · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll second that. Most new games are sugar-coated crap. Reminds me of a new operating system due to be released next year...

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  6. Obligatory... by ricepudd · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can see how much we've moved on, just compare the original Duke Nukem with Duke Nukem Forever!

    Oh wait...

  7. Re:rogue by DrSkwid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagination rules, that's why no-one uses porn

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  8. The Horror, The Horror! by gbulmash · · Score: 3, Funny
    Back in the 70s, my dad bought this off-brand game console from Fedco (a pre-cursor of Costco). Oh, it was terrible. I think it played pong and brickout, but the only one I remember for sure (and the only one he played) was blackjack.

    My friends had Atari, and I had junk. It was so embarrassing when my friends would be over and my dad would ask us if we wanted to play video games. He was so proud of this cheap, no-brand, POS.

    I don't care how prehistoric some of the old games seem in comparison to the flashy new stuff. Back in the '70s, I would have killed for those prehistoric games.

    - Greg

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  9. Dell sells gaming machine by hpcanswers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Along with new stuff for gaming, it appears Dell will sell a massively overclocked (4.26GHz) Pentium D version of the XPS 600.

  10. Cassette loader by glas_gow · · Score: 4, Funny

    With ZX spectrum and Commodore 64 games taking anything up to ten minutes to load from a cassette [if they loaded at all], you were kind of blackmailed into thinking they were better than they really were.

  11. Gaming Now and 20 Years Ago by Trogre · · Score: 4, Funny

    So we'll be seeing today's Windows games vs today's Linux games?

    I kid, I kid

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  12. Re:rogue by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagination rules, that's why no-one uses porn

    You know that theory that says people have a "set point" for fat? I think there's a set point for titillation.

    A Victorian pervert probably got all kinds of sticky enjoyment out of pictures of ladies in their underwear, even if the ladies were rather, uh, plain and middle aged, and the undewear looks like a cotton interpretation of a teutonic knight's jousting armor. You on the other hand can glance at a picture of an anatomically improbable young woman engaged in some equally bizarre sex act, then pass without missing a beat in your search for a blonde Japanese teenaged acrobat with large natural breasts and a knife fetish.

    If you had anything close to the erotic imagination of your 19th century precedecessor, you'd have died from an aneurism the day you got broadband.

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  13. Re:Bug? by wish+bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like you think the real fun is whipping out your dick, attracting all the gay-boys, then running back to your mama.

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  14. Because No One Masterbated to Commander Keen! by Siffy · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://jokaroo.com/funnyvideos/jerking_off_world_o f_warcraft.html

  15. Re:rogue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you had anything close to the erotic imagination of your 19th century precedecessor, you'd have died from an aneurism the day you got broadband

    I'll put that one down under "list of funny things to do when I invent a time machine"

  16. Re:"Article" begs the question... by Placido · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> I'm foreign.. hence... ...there is nothing bloody wrong with... ...the archaic definition!

    You're British?

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  17. Re:OK, here they are for nethack by hawk · · Score: 2, Funny

    oops!

    Let's try again.

    Here's a screen shot for nethack in 1984,



        +---------+
        |...O.....|
        |.....@d..+
        |.........|
        +-----+---+


    Now, here's one from the current version:


        +---------+
        |...O.....|
        |.....@d..+
        |.........|
        +-----+---+


    This clearly shows the superiority of technology used in text games. But then, nethack is the only game that *matters*.

    hawk