Every week CDFreaks looks back and remembers the time when technology wasn’t as advanced as today. This week we take a look at consoles.
Everybody remembers their first console… Some didn’t enjoy the right technology and were not lucky enough to enjoy games in their childhood. My first console was Nintendo’s Super NES, with games like Mario and Street Fighter being my favourites. I still remember the grey box and the grey cassettes that you had to push into the console. After a while everything started to work and with the Playstation (PSX) under way I knew that a new generation was waiting for us. Now that we can enjoy the best in both imaging and sound, I personally start to miss those slow, low-graphic games. Back then we were happy with a hooky action figure that kicks ass. Now we want everything to look like a movie.
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Dou you remember Duck Hunt on the NES? Play it here.
Sometimes the Nintendo didn’t work and you had to take out the cassette and blow off the dust. After you re-inserted the game it started loading immediately. The huge power button on the left of my NES blocked a few times, so I decided to get myself a PSX. After a few years I noticed that every console had the same problems, every game reaches a point where you’ve to clean the discs or cassettes. Sometimes you had to take a few minutes to clean, when this became a daily job developers came with a new console.
Another console that I will never forget is the Atari. As a very young kid I saw my father playing on it. He balanced one controller in two hands and made a little jump after every button press. Back then I remember that a gaming console was part of a living room and not something you would keep in your bedroom. Friends and family sat around the TV while they enjoyed watching the gaming and witnessed some ‘record breaking’.
In 2008 you see that many want to play alone. Probably only the Wii and Playstation EyeToy really are games to play in a group. Some here probably used older consoles than me, maybe something to share? Do you miss those old, slow and sometimes ugly consoles?
