/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3179873
>>Casual gamers never come to be

Starting there, you've got nothing but a huge pile of shit. Wait, back up a bit more...

>>Video games in the west stay mostly on PCs which becomes the most popular way to play them

That's doubtful. master system and turbografx do allright. Even nintendo probably starts getting their shit together. Atari's XEGS and Panther do okayishly. Genesis likely sells as well as SNES or even NES did, or gets replaced by something that's not ready until a year or two later. Wait, back up a bit...

>>3179852
>While the console is released on the same date (1983 in Japan and 1985 in USA), it is more advances, being a 16 bit machine instead of 8 bit.
>The ability to insert two game cartridges into the console allows players to trade Pokemon with each other.

Not necessary, why wouldn't pokemon run fine on an 8bit system? It would just need the floppy drive, or microcassettes for saving, something like that.

Anyway, no matter how it gets there, might as well continue with >>3179873

>sega makes some sort of add on, probably a CD unit, or a polygon crunching chip, that actually does fairly well
>amiga's longer survival includes a bit of living room success
>game gear, atari lynx and portable TG16 survive, receive second, smaller, much more energy efficient incarnations
>doom on consoles becomes more of a hot thing, its engine licensees get vastly better porting treatment
>that includes a highly cinematic FPS
>pioneering cinematic FPS could also be future shock or dark forces, or, say, outlaws coming to consoles

and, UH OH!!

>games become theatricized, watered down, aaaaaaaaannnnnnddddd .... gyah! ... casualized!

Game over! Playing again?

>>2669824
Playing on real hardware = visiting a dominatrix