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What does your younger generations think about your cabinet and the older games?
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protokatie:

--- Quote ---I think what it comes down to is this; the classics are simple to understand, but incredibly difficult to master.
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You may want to consider the "This is unique (to them) factor". I mean, you DO have an arcade cabinet in your house with old school controls that can make any game more fun!
gatordad:
My kids love the classics so much I was having a hard time getting to play my cab

and after a less than stellar progress report from school I made a new rule.
No video games Monday thru Thursday on school nights, exception for Mom and Dad that is...........
TheShanMan:
I got 1 joystick and set of buttons on my 1st swappable panel (a 2 joystick panel) done last night, so it was finally time to let the kids try it out. They're 6 and 3, so I let them play a joystick-only game (pacman) to keep the controls simple, and I lowered the emulation speed to make it easier to develop their skills. I think that is a good way to introduce little kids to it. They really enjoyed it. The pacman music sure sounded funny at 1/2 speed though!
david656:
well im 16 and my first console was the Playstation ! you remember the fat grey one! well i had a few games for it like all 6 tomb raiders and the 3 james bond games and a few other shockers! then of course i got my PS2 with BLACK, the 2 Evil Dead games and a built in HDD with 80 games on! i for my 16th birthday treated myself to a PS3 and to be honest and absolutly discusted with how shocking it is ! all the games avalible are pants or 'been there got the t-shirt... then burnt it!' and for my tec GCSE i have decided to make a arcade machine based on moon patrol but pimp it out to the max with mame! for some reason bubble bobble is addictive! and bad lands is quite cool, of course all the decent games like street fighter i didn't know exsisted till  last year! i have never touched a nintendo! whats mario? sonic ! well i got my first sega last year! a sega master system II ! so i just about know what sonic is  ;D

can't wait to get the machine built, im starting next week, i really wanna catch up on what i have missed.

i pritty much grew up with my gran so have always been into really old tacky music!  but since about 14 got brought into the 80's and like the 80's rocked ! i'm constantly listening to all 80's music i can get my hands on.


(sorry for the waffle)

but basicly i think unless they can come up with some dam good games on PS3 its going in the bin! in today's complex fast world who wants to sit baffled at what you have to do next on prince of persia ! with something like pacman everyone knows what to do and its a fun relaxant, a good alternative to drugs !
yalborap:
Speaking as another one of those 16 year old types, I appreciate a good classic game(though I lack a cab. But that will be changing soon if all goes well). However, I'll be honest that a lot of games don't grip me for an incredibly long time.

Why? Simple. Look at something like, say...Pac-Man. It's a handful of stages, repeated over and over again.

Now let's look at something more modern in my collection. Resident Evil 4. There are quite possibly HUNDREDS of individual battles in that game, in different areas, with different equipment, using different tactics.

I'm not saying that Pac-Man is bad, but I am saying this: Lack of new material limits a game's replayability when you move out of that 'I will gladly bang my head against the Wall Of Fun endlessly' phase(explanation: Where you would play an impossible or difficult game again and again to try and beat it), and aren't in the 'dude I remember this game it's so awesome' phase yet.

And just since it's being mentioned, my first console was an SNES. I'll be honest, a lot of my favorite 'oldschool' games are from around that time frame(bullet-hell shmups, run 'n guns, beat-em-ups, etc.), though I certainly enjoy the uber-classic stuff.
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