The golden age

The golden years. Who can possibly deny that the late 70's and mid 80's had the most addictive videogames?
Yes yes, maybe they didn't had the nice graphics and model that engines like Source can give, they didn't have physic engines like havoc (Come on! They didn't had any physics!), but they were FUN. And i am talking of FUN like (Sometimes and if you weren't good ok?) the FUN of Dwarf Fortress.
They were just plain fun, i remember (Yeah I'm from the 90' but my favorite arcade had games new and old) spending hours playing Galaga, Pac-man, space invaders (my second favorite arcade game), mario (8-bit) and my favorite at that time: FROGGER.

Why is it called the golden age? Well, as i said games were FUUUUUN, but it is really called like that because it was the time when video games got really popular. Before the golden age, some people preffered playing pinball than any arcade game, also it introduced concepts and technology that were not used in videogames before. Like for example the risk-reward concept introduced by Galaxian.

The golden years saw arcade machines and video games for sale in many places looking for extra cash, you could see the games in restaurants, super markets, and even FUCKING FUNERAL HOMES!
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Oh also developers started to experiment with pseudo-3D and stereoscopic 3D and Radar Scope was the first shooter using 3D graphics and a 3rd person view, and it looked pretty damn good for the time.
Also racing games started to use third-person rear view (the view you use today in almost every racer) and sprite scaling with full color. (If cars were close then they would look bigger). The pioneer for that was Sega's Turbo, however, Namco's Pole Position (Damn I loved that game) introduced an improved rear view, and that view would remain the standard for the genre.

And in the 82 Sega would release Zaxxon, a game that introduced my favorite view for an RPG (Thank you Baldur's Gate and Diablo II): Isometric with shadows.

But enough history! That was today's cup of a 16-bit coffee, but today i have cookies to et with that coffee!!!
Eat this special cookie of remembering and have fun like in the old games, or if you are too young for that, then still eat it up, and understand why your elders became gamers. Have fun!!

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