Zelda

[MrFun]

MrFun

I think it's a generational thing. If you weren't exposed to the seismic shift from games like Pitfall and Pac-Man to The Legend of Zelda, it's harder to appreciate what it was like to see it for the first time.

I have also noticed over the years (since my days with Atari 2600 onward) that as game console technology improved with each succeeding one and with different companies, that the quality of games as far as challenge level goes, went out the window.

For example, if I remember right, a lot of the original NES games were more challenging than many of the SNES games (comparing games within same genre, or next-generation re-release titles).

[MrFun]

I loved the first NES Zelda title and the first Super Nintendo Zelda title but not the second NES Zelda title in between the two.

[Sava]

WRT NES. There was only so much you could do with those machines. And if you weren't telling a story, you had to give people a reason to play. The game had to be difficult. Because if you beat it too soon, the fun ended.

[MrFun]

I mean, am I crazy to think that the first Final Fantasy title on the original NES was the most challenging of all Final Fantasy titles that came after?

[Sava]

I wouldn't know.
I never cared much for FF.

[MrFun]

I wouldn't know.
I never cared much for FF.

For years, I was a fan of the Final Fantasy titles.

[Sava]

Did you ever spike your hair up all crazy and carry a cartoonishly large and impractical sword?

[MrFun]

Did you ever spike your hair up all crazy and carry a cartoonishly large and impractical sword?

Nah. I didn't want to be taken away in a straight jacket and institutionalized.

[Sava]

You're like a year or two older than me. Our generation had goth kids. I think you would have been fine.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

don't make me destroy you

Destroy him.

[MrFun]

You're like a year or two older than me. Our generation had goth kids. I think you would have been fine.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

[MrFun]

Destroy him.

With what? The laser beam of death?

[Sava]

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

It's never too late.

Live the dream.

[MrFun]

You mean the nightmare. NOOOOOO!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yeah, that's what cosplay is for...