/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4993861
>I was just looking at some scanned Byte Magazine issues in particular from 1981 and 88 and the 88 issue felt like a completely different planet altogether
Just look at arcades. 1981 to 1991 saw a massive leap in design, visuals, audio, and gameplay. A hit fighting game went from 1981's boxing (pic related) to street fighter 2 in a single decade. A leap like that was space magic.

1991 to 2001 had equal leaps: The rise of MMORPG, emergence of FPS and RTS, and the modern era of RPGs began for both JRPG and WRPG, digital storage for huge games in huge worlds, and a huge leap in visuals and audio.

Now show a gamer in 2001 a game from 2011 and would it blow their mind? Fuck no. More polished visuals but the PS3 dd not look or feel like space magic to someone who owned a PS2. It was all ideas and visuals and games they were already familiar with, only now they had slightly higher res visuals but it was not a jaw dropping shift.

2011 to 2021 will be even less impactful than the previous decade.