So many times, it seems, there are just the (oh-so) few moments to savor the thoughts of glorious attempts to create a memorable theme. Perhaps it's just me. But I find there are too many CONFUSIONS that lie within each shelve (fitting innovative constructive ideas). These distractions are as simple to observe, in my opinion, as they are difficult to keep desire to push forth. Cross-Contamination. Remember when you would paint with water-colors & sometimes you'd accidentally mix a couple of side-by-side colors or the yellow & green - didn't that make brown !! hah. hah. With today's modern gaming systems there are also concerns and issues of 'Where:Gamer's Place Worth' - within that - the actual Stored Memories of their first experiences playing video games. In my lifetime I've come across a few types : 1) Privileged Gamer - the mentor's would purchase any system the child would want, and there hardly were any 'empty-moments' or times filled desiring a newer game & the struggle of convincing (their) parents to purchase the New Starfox 64 WITH Rumble Pak, etc. It was more or less something to talk about. 2) Underrated Gamer - The friend's friend who likely had a newer system, but they really didn't have more than a couple of games. Sometimes you'd find them telling stories - a story is a fib & a fib is an exaggeration, etc. - of a game they were playing - that was "UNRELEASED" and they had the 'Prototype' copy. Let's just say they likely didn't get past Super Mario Bros. II & were still on 2-1 with Sonic the Hedgehog. 3) The Unaffiliated Gamer - this person normally had one of the more expensive game systems, for the time, maybe a Sega Saturn and also some of the Arcade Coin-Op Titles you recall playing at a local arcade. The systems - at the time - were usually not available at the local 'big-shop' (walmart, etc.) and usually an EB shop or maybe CompUSA had a few on hand. Miss those times. Me...? I was fortunate, although my hometown is small, because the local bank actually kept a small arcade funded - Street Fighter II, 3-4 pinballs, Galaga...I recall playing this - as a child - and actually attaining a Hi-Score so vast - the board crashed. Anyhow - the summer mornings (10a-2p) were spent there, slinging quarters UNTIL there wasn't any more sound and digging only produced a piece of string or a few pennies. 4) Hardcore gamer - the guy who would leave school, on Friday, at lunchtime because he wanted to get an early start on Setting THE (town's) New High Score. After about 3 weekends of this...you'd see the bags underneath the eyes and wonder. I remember stopping by, during one of these all-night gaming affairs, nothing else in the house was on - no time for drinks, just chips & usually the parent's were out at some local diner or what have you...complete and total gaming heaven. haha. In any event I'd like to state that video games became a contest no-longer of 'who had enjoyed their exploration in a new / old map' and began to focus on 'who was WOWED more'. This is where I feel there are just too many issues that have caused the slow decay of what should be Modern Development. I'm not going to argue the 1990's Era of Gaming or the actual game's did not have limits - storage, maps, textures, etc - but the games were more straightforward with their appeal. I can say today's games are 'here's a little room to move to your right...or you may be able to squeeze through here - but you must come back to progress' and obvious there's more time spent running a series or franchise model to the ground and all that's left are 'remastered' OLD TITLES. Once The Form was taken out of playing games, everything became a button masher, I loved Teken and I'm a Super Street Fighter! This momentum of taking New Ideas to re-hash old thrills must be put into another cabinet and sealed for storage!!!!
