I started on a PC myself when I started playing video games and that meant I started with a keyboard for my controller. Essentially this means that for me, there is no controller too complex for me to use, as I’ve always used a fair number of keys to get my characters to do what I want them to. In fact, I was a little disappointed by the lack of buttons on the Wii-mote but it actually works quite well for what Nintendo comes out with.

Unfortunately I still feel that some older games really are superior to a lot of the newer stuff I’ve seen today. For instance, I’d much rather play Ocarina of Time or Majora’s Mask over Twilight Princess. I mean I really liked Twilight Princess, don’t get me wrong, but it was just so easy. When I fought a boss in Twilight Princess, it consisted of me repeatedly using whatever I’d found in the dungeon to annihilate the boss of the temple. There was no challenge, especially when you take into account that nothing can hit you for more than two of your hearts.

I’ve always been a fan of Final Fantasy but recently they’ve been taking their games in a direction I don’t care for. Final Fantasy XIII was a disappointment in my eyes because, essentially, the game consisted of walking in a straight line for some forty odd hours looking at, talking to, or killing various pretty things. What happened to the open world, the characters I cared about? What happened to my airship? This is why I think games have really come downhill. All they care about are the graphics, the physics engines, the things that really just add polish to a good game, the things that turn a good game into a great game. But what makes a good game, the actual gameplay, the story, has taken a backseat.

I miss games that really drew you in, had characters that you really cared about, had worlds you felt compelled to explore to the fullest. And that is why, despite how far we’ve come in some areas, I feel that we’ve actually taken a step backward overall.

2) Blowing on the games ruined them. Your spit from your breath actually rusted the contacts on the cartridge. If you cleaned them properly you wouldn’t have had to do that at all. “Yeah I miss the old days when I would ruin my games, so I could play them”

3) You must have never owned a power glove. Those things were better snow shoveling gloves than they were controllers. I bought one and went back to the old controllers after 2 days. Those things sucked.

4) Between the increased size of the systems/controllers and the DVD cases games come in now, this one makes no sense at all. Games now take up much more space if you want them too. Stop putting them in a booklet.

I love my old systems and played through Mega Man 2, Super Metroid and Secret of Mana just last month. There is something to be said of nostalgia for the old systems, but not any of the 4 reasons you have.

Considering that people will make 8 bit renditions of popular songs, people doing guitar covers of old video game songs (as well as many other instruments), and the endless amounts of remixes that are made, obviously there is a lot of love for this music. Hell, I saw videos on youtube where they took the music from the new Sonic 4 game and gave it renditions of how it should’ve sounded. even going as far as to make it sound like it was in Sonic 2, and another how it would sound in Sonic 3. That’s attention to detail there.

Honestly, is anyone going to remember the music to Halo or Mass Effect 25 years from now? Guess time will have to tell on that one. Either way, Super Metroid has the best video game soundtrack ever. No game perfectly sets the mood and fits the setting better. Each level/area has music that can be both exciting and slightly creepy. The music in the item/elevator rooms used to scare me as a child.

Top 10 videogame soundtracks (by franchise, can’t choose just one game):

10. Ninja Gaiden 1 or 2 (Nintendo)
09. Any of the Shinobi games (Sega Genesis)
08. Double Dragon 2 or 3
07. Mega Man 2 or 3
06. Mega Man X trilogy (i honestly don’t care for the later ones)
05. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
04. Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles
03. Resident Evil 1
02. Need For Speed 1-5 (love me some hard rock and techno driving music, not any of this hip hop crap that belongs in 3 3ast 3 3urious)
01. Super Metroid.

I own a power glove, I don’t love it, it’s so bad. Cool looking? Yes. But games like Mario were actually impossible to play, you couldn’t run. About the only game it ever really worked for me was 1943. (youtube the Angry Nintendo Nerd’s power glove episode)