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Sir Auros:
Two other things that bugged me about the video:

1 - None of those people has as much gaming cred. as someone from a game website and it showed.
2 - I really don't think the Sega was what killed arcades. Few of the Genesis games looked as good (or played as well) as the arcade versions and once home consoles started to catch up, arcades went ahead of them again to 3D..

Green Giant:

--- Quote from: Sir Auros on August 14, 2007, 07:37:52 pm ---*Classic, of course, excluding any game made past 1986.

--- End quote ---

Food for thought, insurance companies generally quote any vehicle 25 year or older as a classic.  That would make anything after 82' a nonclassic.  On a brighter note, a few years from now all the games I grew up on will be considered classics by you old fogies, but sadly I will be one by then.

*  Also, don't forget all the driving sims that came out in the early 90's.  I must have lost tons of cash in Cruisin USA.  It sort of sucked when I could play the same game on PS, but before that it was a blast.  So stop arguing that nothing but fighters came out after 86'.

Sir Auros:
Uh...did you think I was arguing that? I was being sarcastic about the view people have on what is a "classic."

You also had the heyday of side-scrolling beat-em-ups in the late 80s - early 90s. Then on the console side you have several new (at the time) genres that weren't possible in arcades. Could you imagine playing Dragon Warrior in the arcades? Imagine how much that would cost on a playchoice.

Green Giant:
I followed everything you were saying Auros.  Just reitterating it for all the people that kept knocking anything that wasn't made in the 70's.  I saw the crap you got about defending modern gaming.  I agree with you, there is no way 120 million people are video game experts.

120 million+ sold PS2's to date

RayB:
If "complexity" of gaming wasn't an issue to certain demographics, we wouldn't have the explosion known as the Casual Gaming market (crazy growth, and most of the games would bore the average Playstation gamer to tears)

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