Let's feel old and depressed.

Where are my crutches?

hammer is a year younger than me

i've touched quake's code, which was being written before i was born

i literally cannot remember a time before 3D games were the norm.

We are now playing the games we could only dream of when we were kids. I remember dreaming of playing games that would allow me to go almost anywhere and do superhero stuff or spells, mess around and have consequences of my actions... You know, a modern open world rpg.

What a day to be alive.

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42 minutes ago, WD said: We are now playing the games we could only dream of when we were kids. I remember dreaming of playing games that would allow me to go almost anywhere and do superhero stuff or spells, mess around and have consequences of my actions... You know, a modern open world rpg.

What a day to be alive.

Imagine what we'll have in another 20-30 years!

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47 minutes ago, Beck said: Imagine what we'll have in another 20-30 years!

Westworld

Oh oh, another one to feel old about. This released 18 years ago today.

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I was playing Pac Man on the Atari 2600 as a kid in the mid 80s

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Good times

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I made the high school I went to, as a map in cs, and shared it around at school on floppy disks

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9 hours ago, Pampers said: I made the high school I went to, as a map in cs, and shared it around at school on floppy disks

I wonder how many times this happened in history

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1 hour ago, FMPONE said: I wonder how many times this happened in history

I went to my headmaster and asked for the blueprints of theschool which the janitor had. He was very suspicious when I asked for it.

I wrote 3 retro articles this year about Doom (23 years old),Quake and Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen (both 20 years old). This made me think about my oldest gaming memory (which I could actually date) and I realized I've been playing games since 1989. That's almost 3 decades. But it doesn't make me feel old or depressed. Quite the contrary actually.

Because I was there from the beginning. I've seen Nintendo come from Game & Watch Mario Bros handhelds to the Switch. I've seen the rise, fall and resurrection of Sega. I was there to see the Society Against PlayStation ads, one of the coolest marketing campaigns for a console ever. I've watched PlayStation conquer the world. I've seen Microsoft buy it's place in the console market and grow from a poser to a force to be reckoned with. I've seen countless consoles come and go. I've played Operation Wolf on the Commodore 64 and I've seen the pc give birth to all genres, plotting the course of the industry in general and becoming the ultimate tool for the self proclaimed Master-race. I'm thankful to have been there and experience that.

I love being a child of the 80's. The music, clothes, cartoons, movies, games, etc. I love all of it. Fuck feeling old and depressed. I feel blessed, seasoned and I age like fine wine. Soon, I'll be priceless and a true gaming connoisseur.

I'm looking forward to more VR, Holovision and whatever else the future brings.

20 years sicne Tomb Raider 1, the game that makes me want to create games.