Gaming Decades: The '80s

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[DaWreckster]

Why is this vid only 2 mins ? Seriously 2 mins dedicated to a decade ! ! !

[xkrazyxboix101]

Games are just fun but it's as if people forgot what got them into gaming.Console multiplayer just became popular 5 years ago.Think about what gaming was to you & what games you played before you ever touched multiplayer . . . . . . . but once you play multiplayer you get hooked & then all of the sudden single player games are what, a bad thing? I remember when people got together & beat games & now people just want to play competitiveley across the internet.What happened to games?lol

[gameboykid11]

old games didn't fuck around. they were hard as hell! video games nowadays are waay too easy!

[janmansde3dede]

Way to go IGN to not mention the C64 and Amiga, retards..

[madcapoperator]

Being born in 1990 I kind of look at the 80's and think 'that must have been fucking mindblowing at the time'. I really admire the 8 bit micro homebrew games defining the generation for a while, especially in the uk. Just a pity that the concept of the 'bedroom coder' is either dead or marginalised and branded as 'indie' where back then the indie games were usually more popular than licenses and arcade ports.

[highlandcommando]

skyrim, uncharted 3, batman arkham city, mass effect 3, the last guardian, hitman absolution, these are brilliant examples that singled player games are alive and in a matter of weeks we will playing them. stalking criminals as batman or exploring dungeons in skyrim, the latter with 300 plus hours of gameplay.

[spike0linkx]

@xkrazyxboix101 well fallout, masseffect are bringing those feeling back

[ildc112]

wow they made a 6 minute video for gameboy but a 2 minute video for ALL the games they remember

[gollapr]

@xkrazyxboix101 it make me sick to see what multiplayer has done to games over the past 7 years...It all started with X box live and that piece of shit HALO 2...thats when the seed was planted. thats what ruined video games. no more adventure...no more exploration...just multiplayer... multiplayer...multiplayer...mu­ltiplayer...kill streak..air strike..kill streak...air strike...

[Chaaarge]

@playaeyez17 depends on how you compare. I mean, do we really want to go back to pacman after playing Mass effect 2 or resident evil 4? I do agree that the 90's were awesome though. Resident evil, half life, alone in the dark... I had such good times with those games

[playaeyez17]

@xkrazyxboix101 What happened to videogames in regards to single player quality/lack of individual fufillment, is the same thing that happened to your "pc" internet experience with the rise of more & more "re-fined" social networks (from first branches of scoial atempts like AOL, which was unique, to the impersonal shallowness which IS Facebook/Twitter today). People strip the intended scope & depth of every great medium untill It casually fits in with thier HARDCORE insecure pc-world conformity

[playaeyez17]

actually more like 1992-1999 for the silver age