Posted By
Csabo
on 2004-09-29
20:44:23
|  Re: Why are you guys better?
Well said T.M.R and Ulysses777, those are both very true. The 16K thing practially crippled our game market. The demos that were produced for the 16K demo compo would have probably shocked the heck out of the makers of the machine - had they seen them back in '84. There's no magic code, we just got better because we kept doing it, kept improving it.
I just have one thing to add: despite the fact that the new(er) scene-produced software are "technically" better, the "old folks" did know how to do one thing right: the gameplay. There are quite a few new games that look impressive, sound great - but simply suck as a game. It's not only the nostalgia factor that makes so many people say "I love playing Icicle Works", "I love playing Tom Thumb", etc: those are good games, period. And you didn't even need a 3D accelerated graphics card.
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