The other thing is that there was simply fewer games back then so you either continue to play the good games you own or you don’t play games. I loved Ocarina of Time, but I’m not going to pretend it was God’s gift to mankind just because I played it tons in my youth. I played it tons in my youth because it was one of the best games that I owned, and even then I had plenty more options than I’m sure this person had on the Atari for good games
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NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 day agoI don’t disagree with you, but there’s no way you have thousands of hours in Qbert. Even hundreds is impressive.
MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was a poor farm kid and winters were long.
I was still playing our Atari 2600 when the PS2 launched.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Daaamn haha. Fair enough.
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That really dramatically takes the steam out of your argument though.
If the same conditions for you existed today, any modern game would blow qbert out of the water, and indeed you would put thousands of hours into it.
Also, Atari games were $20 when they were new not 10. So with inflation it’s about the same as an $80 game today.