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RE: My All-Time Top 20 Video Games (Part 3)
I can tell by this list that you are more of and old school gamer much like myself. I played most of these even though I never had an Amiga because they were super expensive back in their heyday. Some great memories are mixed in there although while I guess I enjoyed it at the time, Sonic games these days make me wonder how it is that I didn't develop some sort of eye problems playing that back on both Genesis and Game Gear (whole lotta batteries involved in owning one of those bad boys!)
Ha ha! Come to think of it, that probably explains why I've worn glasses most of my life 🤓 I've got one of those magnifier attachments but I don't know if that helped much!
6 batteries for the Game Gear, can you imagine that now? I can't remember how long they lasted, a few hours maybe. 10 minutes if you used rechargeable ones.
I think that newer games don't have the gameplay that the older ones had and focus too much on fancy graphics - this isn't really an opinion based upon any real knowledge though as I don't really make time to play video games any more. So I look back on some of these games, how original they were and how playable that made them. I probably owned them a good few years after everybody else when they were much cheaper. I only ever remember buying one game and I dragged my mum around every shop trying to find it cheaper. I think I saved 3p (about $0.05). It was worth the effort.
You just made me remember a part of my youth again with your rechargeable batteries comment: We were a recharageable battery family and those things just absolutely sucked. I have no idea what was on the interior of them but they were always lighter than Duracells or Energizer batteries and it didn't matter if it was a Game Gear or a flashlight, the amount of time you had a charge was MUCH less than a "real" battery.
I wouldn't even say that world was overly concerned about environmentalism back in those times either, it was just a cost thing. I guess we hadn't discovered lithium at that point yet because the horror of using a rechargeable battery on just about anything was bound to be a short-lived experience.
Ha ha! I had never considered this to be a thing but yes! We were a rechargeable battery family too!! And now that we're grown up and have kids of our own, we'll definitely remain so.
The mention of lithium makes me wonder why they don't make a decent lithium-ion battery in AA, AAA, etc. size. Surely these geniuses are able to do this. Rechargeable batteries are as crap now as they were 30 years ago. They're 1.2V instead of the standard 1.5V so it's no wonder they don't last long. Why don't they make 1.5V rechargeable batteries???? I'm starting to get angry about this now.