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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Futurity" data-source="post: 8561304" data-attributes="member: 10738">There's probably a strong correlation. I grew up with an Atari 2600 and later got in to early PC gaming (Zork, original Ultima, etc.) but when I went to college the only games I played from like 1989-1996 were the SSI Gold Box D&D games. Those have a special place in my heart even though I find them completely unplayable now. I didn't get back in to games until the Playstation came out, and as a result a lot of my own nostalgia drive is for iterations of the isometric RPG experience (even though I lack time and energy to invest in them) and survival horror (due to discovering Resident Evil early on); the latter genre resonates well in modern graphics as it only improved with time, but they essentially had the isometric RPG down pat when Baldur's Gate came out....so I tend to get a lot of both despite it mostly being nostalgia (and me not having time for 100+ hour rpgs anymore). I will sink time into more complex, graphically intense experiences like Assassins Creed: Origins, though. Nothing in prior years of the hobby can compare to what that game accomplishes. But in terms of retro gaming.....you know what? For me it's finding decent ports of Pac Man, Asteroids and other classic arcades from when I grew up. But I never had a Nintendo or Super Nintendo ES so as a result I have zero interest in the Castlevanias and Zelda type games of yore. They actually feel painful to me to even try. All my nostalgia love is sparked from really old arcade games, SSI Gold Box D&D and Resident Evil, instead.</blockquote>

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