[andrepd]

I strongly disagree. I have zero interest in today's bloated AAA games. Simple games like Tetris, Mario + romhacks, or Civ II have given me collectively more fun that I would ever have playing some insipid shooter or uninspired pay2win fantasy game. I wouldn't trade them for any of today's games, which I consider severely flawed in many ways.

[eru]

Sturgeon's law applies. We only play the 10% (or less) of old games that are good. There are good new games, too.

[andrepd]

I don't doubt it. I only say that the percentage of good older games is at least equivalent, if not greater, than the percentage of good newer games.

[malka]

i disagree with you. i think the bad games end up being forgotten.

[ekianjo]

Nope, they are still getting a lot of exposure on retro websites and even GOG (despite calling themselves Good Old Games there's also some not-so-good games in their catalog).

[teach]

When they speak of "old" games, I do not think they are thinking of Mario or Tetris, which are a decade newer and orders of magnitude better than some "classic" games.

[andrepd]

A 31 year old game I feel qualifies as "old". What is old, then, pong on an oscilloscope? :p

[rhizome]

Sure, Moon Lander. Original Sprint. The dragster one. 31 years ago was at about the end of the Golden Age of video games.

[usrusr]

The golden age ends roughly 16 years after the birth of the observer.

[rhizome]

Ha ha, I get your point, but the GAoVG is a specific era, roughly 1979-1985. :)

[eru]

Wikipedia has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age_of_arcade_video_gam...

Restricting to arcade games is probably justified. I'd say we are in the golden age of video games right now---at least in terms of popularity. And you can still get remakes of all the good old games, or even play the originals.