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" Steve Young" <su2...@eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

>Noppa wrote in message <35c98840...@news.nmp.nokia.com>...
>>Matthew Murray <mmu...@cc.wwu.edu> wrote:
>>>to find in games these days.  Even bad games from the earliest years of
>>>computer gaming were more magical than most of what I see littering the
>>>shelves today.
>>
>>I think that is only because there was a smaller selection of games
>>back then. If you have less to choose from, even the worse games seem
>>better.
>
>I disagree that there was less choice years ago. Surely it is the other way
>around.

Which machines exactly did you have in mind? There are loads of games
released annually for PCs (and consoles). I was a heavy gamer in the
early 80s too, and don't remember as many games released on any
machines of that time. Later Commodore64, Sinclair Spectrum and
AppleII got more games, but IMHO there are more games released today.

>Firstly, there may not have been much choice for machines like the TI-99/4A,
>but there certainly was for many of the other 8 bit machines.

Back then the other 8bit machines were, what, something like Commodore
VIC-20 and Sinclair ZX-80. Maybe AppleII too.

>And if you can
>find 30% of todays games that interest you, you're clearly fortunate and
>probably into arcade type games.

I guess you are trying to belittle me. No, I am not into arcade type
games that much (unless you call adventures, RPGs, flight sims and
racing sims arcade games). No, most PC games released today are not
arcade games.

And I don't see why you should be complaining anyway, because for
those ancient 8-bit machines (VIC-20, Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64,
Apple II etc.) 95% of released games were simple action games.

For example if you visit Asimov's AppleII game archive or Arnold's
Commodore64 game archive (ftp sites with hundreds of games for those
machines), you will see there are loads more action games in there
than RPG or adventure games.

>Only about 5% of the titles hold any
>interest to me, if that.

Like I said, some people don't like pop music either when they grow
older. But I still can't believe you are complaining that there are
too many action games released today for PCs, when 95% of games
released for 8bit machines were much simpler action games.

I guess that is another example of how people remember only the great
games like Elites, PSI Trading Companies, Ultima IIIs and M.U.L.E.s of
the older machines, and forget about all the mediocre action games and
movie licensed games released for them.