The Old Days of Goodness
I found this while reading SEB, it's a few pictures comparing our classic video games that we grew up with in the 80's to today's modern graphic monsters.
It’s interesting, to me anyway, to think how I used to sit in front of my Commodore 64 and then my Tandy 1000/TL2 (can’t believe I still remember the model number) dreaming about what games would look like one day. While spending countless hours of my youth playing M1 Tank Platoon, F-19 Stealth Fighter and Apache AH-64 my imagination would churn out images of picture perfect landscapes and photo realistic details. I remember watching it as it happened, as games got more and more detailed, getting so excited as we looked at screen shots in the gaming magazines.
I played a lot of “adventure” games back in the day, predominantly produced by Sierra On-Line. Starting with Leisure Suite Larry and the Land of the Lounge Lizards, then Space Quest, Police Quest and Kings Quest, where the graphics were pretty much 8-bit magic and your character was, more or less, a block with wavy lines. It’s funny how most genre’s got better and better as graphics and hardware got better, but the adventure game genre kind of petered out. There were a few valiant attempts by LucasArts to keep it alive, but even those didn’t really hold a candle to the old classics where deciphering the syntax of commands to type into the action box was as much a part of the game as solving the puzzles.
This is what getting old does to you, it makes you think back to the crappy ass things you used to do, but you can only think about how great they were.