The golden Era
By: Mattias Liedholm
 
 
 


What will happen to all the great NES and SNES games now when fancy graphics have become a more and more important feature in today's games?

Sometimes i almost fell sorry for the children growing up nowadays. They seam to think that the better visuals and sound a game got the better it is.
They go "Look how great Unreal looks on my computer with a double Voodoo 2 card and all!". They at so blinded by the advanced graphics that they don't care that Unreal is just another Quake clone with improved graphics and some puzzle solving added to it.

Blinded by this hysteria of getting better and better graphics both the players and the game developers seem to have forgotten what really matter in a game, as the old video/computer -game saying goes: "Pretty graphics do NOT a game make"...

Today's gamers will never experience the almost magical feeling that you get when you after a long and tough battle with Ganon deep inside the Pyramid of Power at last stands in the silk draped hallway and the Triforces slowly hoovers down into your hands. In this moment you are not just controlling Link - you ARE Link.


Zelda 3, to precious to be forgotten...

I doubt that today's gamers have  been so involved in a game that they actually start to live the lives of the characters in the games and feels with them. They have never experienced the touching story and amazing characters of for example Final Fantasy 6 (Final Fantasy 3 in the U.S.A.). They have never experienced the total obsession that you can feel when playing certain games. The characters and places returns in your thoughts long after that the Power button has been pushed on the SNES. I sometimes start Chrono Trigger just to listen to the captivating music played during the intro that almost makes me shiver of excitement!

Evergreens
In the music business there is something called "Evergreens". An Evergreen is a song that is so enjoyable and well thought out that it will be appreciated throughout time, long after the author has died. I reckon that there is the same phenomenon in the video/computer gaming business. I bet that when the gaming kids of 2020 have got tired of all the fancy "VR-3d-hyper-realistic-visually-breathtaking" games, they will take of their flashy VR helmets and turn on their "ancient" SNES or NES to experience all these magical Evergreens like Legend of Zelda 1 & 3, Super Mario Bros 1 & 3, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario Kart. The kind of games that are to great to be forgotten about just because the graphics are a bit outdated. Although the graphics may not be so great compared to the games of the future the gameplay will still be unbeatable...

I'm writing this now in times of an almost unbearable waiting. The waiting for maybe the best game ever made: Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time.
Ocarina of Time seams to be one of Shigeru Miyamoto's best games but most of my mates just doesn't seam to care. They are just going on and on about their PC games. They don't know what they are missing...


An evergreen that will be played for many decades to come...?

When my mates ask me what games I play, I explain that I although that I've got a N64 with the new F-Zero X I still plays old NES and SNES games. When they hear this they often get a surprised look on their faces and probably think "He must be a nuthead still playing those old games", but I don't care. I just go home to my SNES to once again travel into the amazing worlds of Zelda 3 and Chrono Trigger...