Video gaming has gone through one hell of a transformation in the last 30 years, perhaps more so than any other entertainment industry. Gone are the days of brick-sized memory cards, squint-inducing 8-bit graphics and couch-constrained multiplayer modes, replaced instead by instantaneous cloud storage, photo-realistic pixels and sophisticated online playgrounds.
The kids of today simply don’t know how good they’ve got it. Even so, I wouldn’t trade my technologically constrained childhood for the world. No doubt they’ll be saying the exact same thing about hilariously antiquated Blu-ray discs come 2025, but it’s kind of sad that young gamers will never experience these 10 nostalgic quirks of the medium’s infancy… Continue reading