[QUOTE=Anayo]I see where you're going, but I can see some holes in your reasoning. I think if someone can't appreciate a classic game, then the problem lies with that person, not the high tech stuff they were brought up with. Case in point; I'm only about sixteen years old, not even enough to have been alive during the Atari era, but despite this I love games like Asteroids, Missile Command, Battlezone, and Pac Man. They're just good games. They have ingenious and addictive gameplay. Someone disliking old games for being old is like someone disliking an old film because it's in black and white, or because it doesn't have any CG-special effects. It's dumb and tasteless.
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Well I largely agree with you. I was just trying to think through their reasoning, not so much my own. I am sure Gamespot thinks they have a good reason for going in that direction.
One thing that really bothers me -- and I realize that this is due to some interpolation on my part -- is that in one of those reviews of the original NES game on the VC, they lambasted it for not being as good as the original arcade game. But I guarantee you if the original arcade game appeared on the VC in perfect emulation, they would complain that the arcade game was never that great to begin with.