Okay guys. I was born in 1976. I admit that I’m 48 years old and damn proud of it.
Growing up in the 80’s, I realize that the best games were from the 1980’s and to this day it still is.
Retro gaming for me isn’t just about game play and getting from one point to another. To me it’s about the friendships that I made while playing the games.
From Pac-Man to Super Mario Bros. It’s about the human friendships that we made along the way. Not like the disconnected way we play games now.
So here’s the question that I would like to pose to those of similar age… Do you feel the same way I do? Do you think that the way we played games then is a stark contrast now that we’ve grown up?
Let me know in the comments.
Also, if you have any stories about video game friendships, I would like to here from you as well.
I was born in the same year, 1976, and I really don’t feel the same way. Pretty much every era has bangers and also really bad games.
I have really good memories from the '80s (games like Pitfall II or the MSX Konami games), the '90s (playing MUDs with my college pals, the classic SNES JRPGs like Chrono Trigger or the classic PC CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate and its ilk), the '00s (games like Silent Hill 2, Morrowind or GTA: San Andreas), the '10s (pretty much every FromSoft game from that decade, NieR:Automata or the Rocksteady Batman games) and the '20s (games like Elden Ring, Hades, etc.). And many more games I didn’t mention.
Some decades have been better than others, but there are incredible games in all of them.