/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10761572
We were spoiled. A lot of the things millennials and Gen Z are huge fans of started showing up in the 80s. Whether it's popular anime and manga, Saturday morning cartoons, or video games, a lot of it isn't THAT old so the people who pioneered it we just took for granted were still plinking away. But a lot of those guys who were in their 20s and 30s back then are now in their 60s and 70s. Shigeru Miyamoto is 71. Yuji Horii is 70. Ed Boon and Hironobu Sakaguchi are younguns at 60 and 61 respectively. Rumiko Takahashi is 66. The founding fathers of late 20th century pop culture are almost universally at retirement age. Nobuo Uematsu just announced that he plans to retire. But then you pop in Chrono Trigger and see all these guys who at the time were probably younger than a lot of us are today. I still visualize Sakaguchi as a guy in his 30s with thick jet black hair even though he's now gone gray. It's quite bittersweet, for example, seeing just how old the three still living Ghostbusters are now. Or Harrison Ford. Or Christopher Lloyd. Or Patrick Stewart. It's super easy to engage with the old stuff so often that you forget how much time has passed. You get so used to these people existing in that snapshot that when you see them as they are today it feels like they aged decades in a matter of minutes. That said, as sad as it can be, think about how lucky we were to be children and have our formative years at that perfect moment when these things were being made. I feel quite honored, for example, that I was there during the dizzying growth of the video game industry, or to watch the Simpsons from the start and lived through that period of Bart Simpson fever in the early 90s. Being one of the kids who these things were made for. It feels like the equivalent of being a kid when Action Comics #1 first hit newstands. Or watching the Wizard of Oz at it's theatrical premiere. We were the people who got to be contemporaries of Akira Toriyama.