/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4927379
Aging badly has a lot more than just being bad at the time. Many actually seemed quite impressive initially, it's just that as games and genres progressed they didn't hold up any more.

So if you were around to remember when Street Fighter hit, it was pretty amazing especially when you compared it to what else there was.

A short time later though, Street Fighter 2 came along and did everything so much better that the first game was just about redundant. And to this day, outside of curiosity there's not a lot of reason to go back to Street Fighter 1. It was a fine game, but it didn't age well.

Street Fighter 2, on the other hand quite quickly became a classic. It improved the basics from the first game so well that even after all these years and other entries in the series, it still holds it's own when compared. I am simplifying things a little if course, vanilla SF2 doesn't stand up as well as ST but you generally get the idea.

It's not necessarily that a thing was bad when it was new, it's more a measure if how much expectations have changed since it was new.