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Re: 10 Reasons Why Video Games Were Better in the 80s
12/30/12 03:49 PM
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> "We mostly played them in the same room" and "So no anonymous children could berate
> us from thousands of miles away."
But what would an arcade be without some dickhead berating you? Arseholes were just a lot closer back then.
> "Controller layouts weren't totally confusing"
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> Subjective and game dependent.
Yeah, there were plenty of stupid, confusing keyboard mappings that couldn't be edited back then, too. Lots of PC games decided F1 of all keys should do stuff. Then there were the weird things you had to do on consoles with limited buttons. Psychic World on Master system - didn't changing weapons require you to jump and then quickly hit down or some crap like that?
> "No console wars meant no console trolls"
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> There have long been competing consoles. I suppose you could blame the internet for
> giving the trolls a worldwide voice, but that just makes them easier to ignore imo.
Who could forget NES/Master System or SNES/MegaDrive rivalry? There were plenty of console trolls.
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