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On 05/07/2018 00:01, Pabst Blue Ribbon wrote:
> AndyW <An...@nojunqmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have been spoiled by GHz of speed, GB of memory, TB of disk space and
>> Mega-mega pixels of screen resolutions.
> 
> I guess we've all been spoiled by that. But I suspect that just low
> resolution and beeping sounds are enough to cause pleasing state of
> nostalgia.
> 
> I'm not a gamer, but while browsing web I see ads and discussions about
> games every now and then. In last several years there were quite few
> successful titles that can be called "retro games". They are native
> Win/Lin/Mac programs running on x86_64, but visually they're very close to
> what was state of the art back in the days of Commodore, ZX Spectrum, and
> other 8-bit home computers. Of course, new games are different than the
> titles of 1980's, they more like something one would call "close enough".
> But people actually like it! I suspect main audience is people in their
> 30's or 40's who played old games when they were kids and just want to feel
> the nostalgia, and simple visual/audio experience works for them even
> though they were spoiled by GHzs of CPU speed and mega-mega pixels of
> screen resolution.
> 
> So maybe that's all what nostalgia is? Video/audio experience?


I am coming to think that a lot of nostalgia is simply remembering when 
things were new and exciting. Nostalgia is remembering how it used to 
make me feel.
A lot of older games that I used to play in the 80s I absolutely loved 
but now they do nothing for me. At the time they were cutting edge and I 
think that was what I was remembering. Now they are not so new they have 
no impact, like hearing a joke over and over, it is never funny as the 
first time (except for 4 candles; that never gets old - for non-Brits it 
is a sketch in a comedy show based on misunderstood accents. 
Consistently voted the top comedy moment in UK polls).

Andy