This is more of a retro post- a post reflecting on the times of old- when games were good. What happend to those times?

I want to know- in the end- do I like Retro games now only because I had such good experiences with them? Or because they were more challanging? Or because the simple fact is that their were much better ideas- projects were more and widely different- the pop princess genre been that of a Mario breed- the run and jump was what most people wanted to make- most failed- but the ones which won- were more then now, with the sandbox and FPS genres been the dried up tits of gaming in this generation.

I was always an exlusive player- to the one of red which is now a gray slab of cement with a blank expression which drowns games in cement before putting them on the market- a cement full of rocks and bumps which were no existant with the communist red brand I used to pick up.

Their consoles had just reason to must of the games around- picking up and playing them wasn’t a chore as gaming is now- but an adventure and a challange- why is the chore now? Because so much more work has to be done- to find the right game and a good game in this day and age.

Your picking up titles left right and center these days- but its less then you hopped with the market been bigger and fatter then before- gaming companies are trying to fit everyone on one console- an imposible task, centering attention on a certain group for long peroids of time- ricing out the rabid fanbase to a rinkled old bum who dosn’t know whats happing.

The gray team isn’t the only one which is doing this- other groups are doing this, the changing, the broadness and the plain boring ness of their systems. It comes with the title now- the consoles all nameless gray faces- with a few leading titles, but those are subjectable to who you talk to.

Let’s go one console? How do we go to just one console when the industry’s big 3 can’t get their own consoles right. A one console policy will only make things worse.

I think the older grayer consoles are more fun, because they offer what the new hip foke don’t now. They might still have been riddled with the same problems back then as to now- but they had a character which didn’t feel like it had everything glued to it. Consoles and brands had select heros which were respected and loved by fans along with the lines of smaller titles, which followed the big wigs like always- but had their own charm and respect to them. No matter how low down the chain- the games could be loved or respected some how. These days the chain is rusted, and to fix it- they tried to put sticky tape on it. But that dosn’t work- the heros of old are now old themselves- trying to stay fit and hip to what the companies think people want. The blue hedgehog has become a blue ball of blur- with each day showing something different which they think will sell. Only to spin the once great down further and further.

We don’t have to go as far back as the times when games were pixlated and funky to have the norglistic effect which the current line up has brought to anything which dosn’t appeal to the mainstream. Last generation- the last for the red team before becoming the gray- of goldeness- but for the rest, they had long gone, been butcherd and served on the carving block.

These days there are no favorite developers or publishers- just like their games, they change identy so much- it is imposible to know who is good- or who is evil.