Rosenau is part of a growing community who are ditching contemporary video games and picking up the consoles from their childhood, or even before their time. And gen Z gamers are following suit, with 24% owning a retro console, according to research by Pringles.
modern gaming feels like:
huge download size, then have to update.
oh wait, you gotta register before playing,
now let’s show you a bunch of ads inside a game you already paid for.
now wait 10 minutes to connect to a game,
proceed to get demolished by people who spend $100/year for upgrades,
oh wait, now there’s a dlc, I have to buy another game within the game,
oops servers down, you can no longer play the game you bought
this is why i emulate
One thing about many early games is that they’re difficult. I haven’t a clue how someone can get through Super Ghost n’ Goblins or Battletoads. I had a game genie just so I can see the parts of a game that I would never be able to on my own.
You answered your own question. You just cheated, or you played it over and over and over until you got really good/lucky.
You have to realize, a lot of the early stuff came off the backs of arcade titles that were designed to be played repeatedly with little progression aside a number that went up.
There is a YouTube series call debunking game difficulty (or something like that), it provides guide on some hard retro games, one of the episode is on ghost and goblin
could pringles be the new face of gaming?
according to research by Pringles
Well everyone knows Doritos are the definitive chip authority when it comes to gamers, so I would take this with a grain of salt
Pringles research is usually fine as long as it’s peer reviewed by someone at Mountain Dew U.
Please drink verification can.
UwU?
Pringles comes with a lot more than a grain of salt…
I personally go for salt and vinegar.
Yeah, what in the hell is that all about. I assume they don’t mean the chips, but they should know to qualify that 🤣
chips
Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them “chips”, and call them “crisps” instead:
The product was originally known as Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato “chip” since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word “chip” in their product name within the phrase: “potato chips made from dried potatoes”. Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato “crisps”, instead of chips.
In the UK, they argued they were not “potato crisps” because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.
In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled “Potato Crisps” on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, “is not found in nature”. This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.
Pretty sure they do mean the chips. This guy in the thumbnail is wearing a Pringles brand apron of sorts.
It’s funny: runaway console game prices are what lead me to GOG.
Research by Pringles? 🤨
according to research by Pringles.
Early games were designed to delight, slightly more modern games are designed to both delight and advertise.
It’s the difference between “I can’t beat this boss so I’d better go level up for 20 mins, ooh I unlocked a new spell” and “I can’t beat this boss I had better prep for a 10 hour grind, this is so I can find the X to craft the Y so I can begin to make the Z which offers me a 1 in 10 chance to unlock the option to craft a new spell… Or I could just pay $5 to skip that bit by buying the spell…”
Minus the “pay $5 to skip” part, retro games are overwhelmingly more likely to be the second than the first. How do you keep someone playing your game for longer than a weekend, in an age where games are 12mb you can’t add new content after you ship? You make your game hard as balls and require a ton of grinding.
Not all games were like this, but tons were. Final fantasy, Ghosts n Ghouls/Goblins, Battletoads, and more all follow this pattern. Even Pokémon isn’t exactly hard but half of the game is just grinding.
Fair enough considering I (as a Gen z that calls himself a millennial because I hate how cringe Gen z is) have a few retro consoles.
Sega Genesis & Dreamcast, and PS2. The others I wouldn’t consider retro yet. Maybe in a few years, though, but not now.
Definitely looking in the future to get my hands on a Sega CD, Saturn, and Game Gear to have all the greatest retro consoles I could think of. Though that’s far off because of how expensive they are.
Try emulators for the Game Gear. Some games were great, some sucked big time.
- The best RPG ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_of_Oasis
- Ninjas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_G.G._Shinobi
- The original Advance Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Warriors
But seriously, try Defenders of the fucking Oasis, it’s awesome, it had a great story, great music (I can still hear the music in my head 30 year later, god I have to play that game again), great cutscenes… And all the Sonics sucked, forget those.
On the Genesis/Megadrive, you had Beyond Oasis which is not a sequel but is still good and more action-oriented. You could play that one too.
Definitely don’t have a problem with emulating games and will probably emulate those titles, but I’d absolutely love to try on actual hardware since emulators can’t come close to that feeling of using the actual console.
That’s funny, I’m at the very ass-end of GenX, and wouldn’t call myself a millennial to save my life lol.
Nintendo starting at 64 (because divorce dad was cool dad). Picked up an Analogue pocket and am currently working my way through the GB/GBC/GBA catalog. Also got Ecco for Genesis working. It really feels less like playing a game, and more like experiencing a culture.
It reminds me how important all these emulator projects are at keeping games alive.
