Is it so bad not to be all into classics?

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Don't get me wrong, I do like the classics but I'm 22 and I grew up on newer games.Most of the games I would wanna have you guys wouldn't be caught playing. I grew up play Street Fighters,Mortal Kombats and Killer Instincts, virtual cop, cruisin usa and so forthm these are the games that reminds me of good memories when my grandmother was still alive and took me to local bowling alleys and skating rinks just to play the arcade games. I would have to love to grown up in the real arcade but I didn't and all the fighting and beat em up games will hold a place in my heart. Am I saying I don't want any classics, no I'm just saying newer games is what I prefer but I wouldn't turn down centipede, tempest, pacman ect.... Any thoughts or anyone else feel the same.... Sorry I'm just bored and rambling
 
Don't get me wrong, I do like the classics but I'm 22 and I grew up on newer games.Most of the games I would wanna have you guys wouldn't be caught playing. I grew up play Street Fighters,Mortal Kombats and Killer Instincts, virtual cop, cruisin usa and so forthm these are the games that reminds me of good memories when my grandmother was still alive and took me to local bowling alleys and skating rinks just to play the arcade games. I would have to love to grown up in the real arcade but I didn't and all the fighting and beat em up games will hold a place in my heart. Am I saying I don't want any classics, no I'm just saying newer games is what I prefer but I wouldn't turn down centipede, tempest, pacman ect.... Any thoughts.... So I'm just bored and rambling

I think for most people its all about the things you mentioned. The great times playing video games as a kid, remembering how how much you wanted to get back to the arcade and play whichever gamed you really loved! I'm 34 and I have two separate arcade eras in my life. The first was in the 80's playing most of the classics as an 8 to 10 year old, and the second being in high school playing Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat and the likes.
 
I don't blame you. I tell people all the time that KI's, MK's, Street Fighters, etc.. are going to be the new classics. You go by what you grow up on. Plus a good amount of the classics nowadays bore me that I used to play growing up. I really like a bunch of the newer driving games and games that came out in the 90's+. I can't even play a pinball long nowadays anymore if it doesn't have some sort of toy or a bunch of ramps to shoot for, but I used to love simpler games like High Speed and Comet growing up.

Collect what you play and enjoy!!!
Brian
 
Most of us like the 80s classics because those are what we grew up with. I was 7 in 1978, so I have been playing everything from Space Invaders on. I just bought a Neo Geo cab, and it is a great addition to the arcade. My most wanted game right now is Hydro Thunder.
 
I am not far off from you. I am only 26 and grew up more on newer games, I mean I own a Donkey Kong machine that is older than I am. For me I always like the classic feel. I would love to own a NBA Jam or a Star Wars trilogy arcade machine. I played the Star Wars game the most and spent many dollars on it.
 
By no means let others dissuade you from what YOU like. This is a hobby and it includes all aspects no matter what anyone else says. Opinions are like as.......yeah we all know the saying.

I'm 34 and was a bit too young for memories of playing the true classics in the wild in their hay-day. I just happen to like those games and will hopefully add more to my collection.

The games that interest me at this moment are the late 80's/early 90's arcades. That is what I'm looking for and those have the memories for me.
 
I'm also at that wierd age (31). As a kid I was all over games like Spy Hunter & Pole Position, fond memories of the Atari Arcade. By High School it was all about MK and Cruis'n, and what was the Atari Arcade would become Exilarama (or The Tilt in other places). I like 'em all.
 
As long as you are collecting what you like, who cares what anyone else thinks.

I grew up playing the early classics and that's the type of games I prefer to play and collect. But I did spend some time on the fighting games and have both a Tekken I/II and a MK II machine.

Same with pins, people go nuts over the newer pinball machines, but I prefer the mid-70's to mid-80's SS type pinball machines because it's what is surrounded by the fondest memories of me and friends at the arcade, bowling alley, Putt-Putt, or wherever else we happened to be hanging out at the time.

Right now I'm looking for an upright Night Driver(actually been looking for one close to home for a few years). It's about the plainest racing game you've ever seen and most people will not give it a second notice when I get one in the gameroom. But for me, it's my favorite racing game. When I'm playing it, it's 1978 again and I'm in Rambo's Skateland with my friends, dropping all of our money into the games instead of spending it on renting skates.

So buy the stuff you remember from and like. Can't go wrong with that.

-JM
 
Same here. I'm 21 and grew up with MK, NBA Jam, Time Crisis and those are the games I love. I find most "classics" boring and not very fun. The ones I do like I grew up playing some. DK, Pacman, Punch Out but for the most part I find the newer games the most fun. Can't tell you how many quarters I pumped into Super Off Road or Simpsons.
 
you like what you like, and thats that.
I love the classics
i consider mk, ki, etc all classics as well just not super vintage classics like pacman etc.


and boy do i love me some pinball
 
I find most "classics" boring and not very fun.

Now ya done gone to far!

Heh. Nah, play what you find fun. You can't help it that you missed out on growing up during the heydey golden years of real arcades!

I don't "get" the newer fighting games. My 9 year old kicks my but on SF II.
 
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I am 33 and my heart is with the street fighter generation.
We have seen games going from blips to full blown awesomeness with side scroller candy & bitchen music such as altered beast & ghouls N ghosts!
My key years are easily 1987-1992... Post golden age or second generation arcader :)

i also, have heart with the classics though also as i remember being 4, standing on a step ladder, and playing space invaders.. i really didnt even know what i was doing i was blown away!.

Was pretty nerve racking being a twerp running around bay beech pushing your way past towering teens with cigarett packs rolled up in their sleeves. Everyone smoked, the games wall to wall. it was arcade bliss. and i was 5 to 9 years old of key memories.. At least 100 games in the pavilion

Battlezone!
Gauntlet
Pengo
DigDug
Centipede
Bezerek!!.. omg, actualy my first video game ever..
 
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I'm 30. I started off with thinking "90's beat-em ups and fighters are da bomb". But after 2 years of collecting, selling, fixing, and tinkering, I've found that the older, repetitive, skill-based games (Defender, Gyruss, etc.) are what I'm beginning to enjoy more.

I compare it to my beers. When I was 21, I just stuck with what I knew: Coors light. As I progressed in years and experimented more on my taste, I found that Guiness and Black Butte Porter were much more enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, I still will drink the thinned down, cheap stuff any day of the week...but I know what the quality brews are.
 
Everyone pretty much summed it up for ya' already. Collect & play what you like, not what others tell you to collect. Stick with that and you'll be happy.

I'm 38 and experienced the arcade craze in the early 80's. I remember the Pac-Man mania that went down back then. Yet I don't really like Pac-Man at all. My wife, who was born in 1980, loves Pac-Man. Go figure. It's all individual taste. Heck, one day Big Buck Hunter will be a "classic" and be remembered fondly as a game from someone's childhood.

Me and a buddy of mine every once in awhile (usually after a few beers) have a discussion about the Atari 2600 and the NES. As a kid, I remember the 2600 and was the system that I played back then. He, on the other hand, wasn't really old enough during the height of the 2600's popularity. Instead he spent his childhood with the NES and considers that system classic to him. At the same time I wasn't into video games anymore but instead was into girls, music, sports, and all other things teenagers care & worry about. It's all relative.

BTW, he likes SF, MK, Tekken, etc also. And cleans my clock when we play those games!
 
Collect what you love and love what you collect. It's your time and more importantly it's your hard earned money.

I was born in 1971 and I find many of the classics boring as hell myself, but I have a few that I love too. To each their own.
 
Everyone pretty much summed it up for ya' already. Collect & play what you like, not what others tell you to collect. Stick with that and you'll be happy.

I'm 38 and experienced the arcade craze in the early 80's. I remember the Pac-Man mania that went down back then. Yet I don't really like Pac-Man at all. My wife, who was born in 1980, loves Pac-Man. Go figure. It's all individual taste. Heck, one day Big Buck Hunter will be a "classic" and be remembered fondly as a game from someone's childhood.

Me and a buddy of mine every once in awhile (usually after a few beers) have a discussion about the Atari 2600 and the NES. As a kid, I remember the 2600 and was the system that I played back then. He, on the other hand, wasn't really old enough during the height of the 2600's popularity. Instead he spent his childhood with the NES and considers that system classic to him. At the same time I wasn't into video games anymore but instead was into girls, music, sports, and all other things teenagers care & worry about. It's all relative.

BTW, he likes SF, MK, Tekken, etc also. And cleans my clock when we play those games!

HAHAHAH...I cant stand those damn buck hunters in every bar and modern arcade everywhere you go
 
A few years from now at least you'll get your money back if you sell your games, us Classic guys will be trying to sell our Classics to younger people who never heard of them or could care less about playing them.
 
I'm 30. I started off with thinking "90's beat-em ups and fighters are da bomb". But after 2 years of collecting, selling, fixing, and tinkering, I've found that the older, repetitive, skill-based games (Defender, Gyruss, etc.) are what I'm beginning to enjoy more.

I compare it to my beers. When I was 21, I just stuck with what I knew: Coors light. As I progressed in years and experimented more on my taste, I found that Guiness and Black Butte Porter were much more enjoyable. Don't get me wrong, I still will drink the thinned down, cheap stuff any day of the week...but I know what the quality brews are.

You crazy drunk :D

Yeah Guiness is the best !
 
HAHAHAH...I cant stand those damn buck hunters in every bar and modern arcade everywhere you go

LOL! Yes they are. The Tilted Kilt by me has one. And it's expensive to play too!
Maybe I'm a cheap bast@rd but aren't arcade games suppose to be a quarter? Or $.50 at the most?
Guess my "classic" memories cause me shock when I see an arcade machine that takes dollar bills to play a single game :)
 
Don't get me wrong, I do like the classics but I'm 22 and I grew up on newer games.Most of the games I would wanna have you guys wouldn't be caught playing. I grew up play Street Fighters,Mortal Kombats and Killer Instincts, virtual cop, cruisin usa and so forthm these are the games that reminds me of good memories when my grandmother was still alive and took me to local bowling alleys and skating rinks just to play the arcade games. I would have to love to grown up in the real arcade but I didn't and all the fighting and beat em up games will hold a place in my heart. Am I saying I don't want any classics, no I'm just saying newer games is what I prefer but I wouldn't turn down centipede, tempest, pacman ect.... Any thoughts or anyone else feel the same.... Sorry I'm just bored and rambling

My thoughts are, don't ever let anybody tell you what you should or shouldn't feel or enjoy. If you like something, to hell with anybody who tells you it's invalid.
 
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