Retro Reminiscing
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Can we, for a moment, just take a step back in time…back to a time before the ps2 and before the xbox, gamecube, and the wii. As I sit here at my desk in my dorm room I notice something in the corner. It is neither big nor flashy, hi definition or hi speed, but rather, it is a Gameboy. Now the one sitting in my room is a Gameboy Advance, but it sparks the memories of a time before the games of today. There was once a time when it was cool to have the limited edition Ice Blue Gameboy Pocket. But there mere lack of advanced graphics and sound did not cause a lack of excellent gaming.
Don’t misinterpret what my point is here, I am not at all against the new games that have hit the market. In fact, I love most of them. I am merely having a nostalgic moment in which I remember how even the simplest of games which, when compared to games of today were just moving pixels, could entertain for hours, making even the longest of trips seem like mere seconds.
Gaming really has taken giant leaps in just about every aspect of the industry, and I applaud them for that. It’s just fun to compare what once was to what currently is every once in a while.