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golden Era By: Mattias Liedholm
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. 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.
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
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.
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...
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