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Then vs Now (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rollercoaster Tycoon was 1999, so I'll choose to believe that the "then" era was after the big gaming crash of the 80s. There was still shovelware, but it wasn't nearly as bad as during the 80s when you'd see mountains and mountains of terrible, non-functioning games. I don't think anyone really has nostalgia for that period of gaming, but the late 90s to early 2000s really were as close to a golden age as we ever got.

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 10 months ago

Gaming crash was more of a console thing. One of the arguments was why you should buy a console when you can buy a computer for a bit more and do so much more. Computer games ran through it mostly unfazed.