Does anyone in the 20s or younger enjoy NES games?

[Deleted member 700783]

I'm in my early 30s and enjoy some of them but am biased by nostalgia because I played them on the Wii Virtual Console as a teenager. I'm curious to know if people who are not biased by nostalgia can enjoy 8 bit games.

 

[Fugelmir]

I bet there are lots of people in their 20s who have an active nintendo subscription and enjoy the NES games that cycle in and out of the catalogue.

 

[Ryab]

I'm in my early 30s and enjoy some of them but am biased by nostalgia because I played them on the Wii Virtual Console as a teenager. I'm curious to know if people who are not biased by nostalgia can enjoy 8 bit games.

Oh hell yeah. Currently 22 and I've always been a retro gamer.

 

[tech3475]

Not the NES, but a few years ago I gifted one of my brothers a C64 mini, he said his then 5 year old kid was enjoying playing it.

Edit:

Just re-read the title.

 

[Cranesbill]

Oh yeah, I go back to play some of them for a different experience. Super Mario Bros 3, Duck Tales, Batman The Video Game, Punch Out, Metroid, Ice Climber, Mother, etc.

 

[hippy dave]

I'm too old to answer the question, but I'm mildly amused by the "idk if younger people can appreciate them like I do because I played them emulated 4 generations later"

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

i'm not even 20 and I enjoy alot of NES games, I can find some enjoyment on even older games from the 2600 era

 

[AdenTheThird]

I was fortunate enough to grow up with an NES as one of my first consoles and grew up playing Super Mario Bros. 2 and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out on a CRT TV while my friends grew up playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Absolutely, I still enjoy NES games. The old NES I grew up with has been gone for a while, but every now and then I'll sit down and play an old NES game. I've beaten Zelda 1 and 2 with no Internet assistance and played through Battletoads a while back as well. There's a lot of charm and fun to be found in NES games and I think I'll always enjoy them, even if my peers seem to find them lackluster and primitive.

 

[Deleted member 700783]

I'm too old to answer the question, but I'm mildly amused by the "idk if younger people can appreciate them like I do because I played them emulated 4 generations later"

For me personally I tried them because I played games like Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow on the DS and enjoyed them enough to want to play the older games in the series. In the case of Super Mario Bros. 3, I played it first on the GameBoy Advance.

My situation does not necessarily apply to people a decade younger than myself. There were less games available back then than there are now, I did play 8-bit games on the GameBoy Colour, and standards for graphical quality are higher now than in the Wii era.

 

[Statesman]

Yes, not all of them but some games have held up mechanics/gameplay-wise. NES graphics are rough though, SNES is the latest I can go (being THE sprite rpg kino console probably does help).

 

[DragonMals]

I am one age before the consent age and I rather enjoy Retro games than a soulless PS4/5 or Xbox One/Series X|S

 

[Cranesbill]

I am one age before the consent age and I rather enjoy Retro games than a soulless PS4/5 or Xbox One/Series X|S

Honestly the PS5 is kinda mid, there’s not much games to play other Spider Man or God of War.

 

[DragonMals]

Honestly the PS5 is kinda mid, there’s not much games to play other Spider Man or God of War.

I don't really have interest to those games at all lol

 

[Cranesbill]

I don't really have interest to those games at all lol

Damn lmao that’s aright

 

[Ryccardo]

I did when I was 10 or whatever - of course I didn't really know what a NES was, just that this PolyStation 2 thing my neighbor had has a bunch of games including a less frustrating large screen version of Mario Deluxe a friend in elementary school had

 

[nWo]

My son, he is 14. He started playing very young, like me, as a toddler. And he has liked modern games but also always tried the older ones since the start. He loves the NES, SNES and all of those retro games. I always told him that, in games, respect where respect is due, and he agrees. Those games are the base of what we have today, and man, so many of them are just incredibly good.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Good to see younger gens aren't discarding old games for "bad graphics." If they do, they're the ones missing out.