Old gamers vs New gamers
Nick Forchani is a veteran gamer with 25 years of gaming experience (WOW!) He understands how computer games and gaming have evolved, having played everything from Tic-Tac-Toe to Tropico. You know what he thinks of young gamers of today? He thinks that they are spoiled - 'they just don't know how good they've got it!'
His judgment comes from the fact he hears young people complaining about things like:
a) multiplayer interfaces,
b) volumetric lighting,
c) rasterized graphics, and
d) music soundtracks.
These are issues about gaming that didn't even exist when he was a beginning gamer. In the 'old days' Nick was playing 4K games on his first machine, a TRS-80 Model 1, built by Radio Shack in the 1970's.
Nick, who still has his antique machine (which he had upgraded to 48K in 1981) in a downstairs closet says;
These kids are lucky. When I was a kid, computer games took three hours to load from an old cassette player--if you were lucky enough to afford one. And if the volumes weren't set right, we'd have to do the whole thing over again. A man thought twice before he decided moving on to another game. You loaded a game, and that was it! You played it, and you liked it mister!
Well, didn't he complain about what was there during his times? So what if we complain about the things we do today? Before videogames, kids did complain about not having this toy or that? So should we go back to the medieval times?
I believe Nick is getting it all wrong. What do you think? Let us know.
Read more on his views in this article here in The Toque
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