Was Videogaming Better Back in the Day?

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 16, 2007 @02:58AM from the these-new-fangled-gears-and-half-lives dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sean Sands at Gamers With Jobs looks back at the dawn of videogaming, when we were all kids just typing in our games, one line of BASIC at a time. And he finds the present lacking: 'The dreamers became assets instead of leaders, and the rockstar designers became, well, Rockstar ... or Blizzard, or Valve. Publishers with cash-rich money to spend bought the creative process, and the minds of marketing professionals replaced four guys hopped up on sugar doughnuts and generic cola. So, how dare I be surprised that the price of today's gaming blitz is a little piece of last generation's soul?' Do you agree? Was simple gaming better, or are you a story in games fan?"

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Re:Check out the Angry Videogame Nerd. by digitalhermit · 2007-04-16 06:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Look, you can dance if you want to. Leave your friends behind. 'Cos your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well that's no friend of mine. Men Without Hats

I need an easy friend. Nirvana

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. Paul Simon (I think)

MWH was almost Warholian... Throw something ridiculous up to the world and see who prays. That's the joke.

Nirvana said a similar thing with their ohmygod ponies pop hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit". And they knew it. Throw something ridiculous up to the world and see who prays.