An Ode' to 16 Bit

I wish for a moment we still lived in the 16 bit world. That was a simpler time were graphics had lush vivid chipsets within the limitations, artists had to work within a very thin box, but did so with grace and elegance. Plot and emotions had to push the story along, not what the next cutscene was going to be...

Secret of Mana

Earthbound

Super Mario RPG

Final Fantasy Tactics

The Legend of Zelda

These are my games I care the most about, if the world was going to end and I could only bring one person, I’d load up all of these games into a human shape with the systems... because emulators are not the same thing.

The feel of the plastic cartridge or the old fashion CDs covered in scratches seconds after you bought them, the smell of the console, the jiggling of plugs, blowing into the system... this is lost on today’s youth. All they want to do is shoot up some terrorists, throw sticky grenades, cut someone in half or do some button sequence perfect so their character *blanks* yet another easy Greek prostitute, or more recently, anything which walks and talks (see Dragon Age 2).

If someone asks me what game I want, I begin to tear up, because I want a lot of them, I want to play so many, but my time has past. Viva la Retro!