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mesa@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Why old games never die (but new ones do)

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Why old games never die (but new ones do)

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It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…
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    Yeah and looking at the past with rose colored glasses. There was plenty of “slop” in the past. It was such a problem in the earliest days of video games that it almost killed the entire industry.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

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