As I sit here I think we are going back to the future... or something

Have we really made any progress since the early 80's? Well. I sit here in front of a great game which I haven't played for a while but its updating. Didn't I kind of install this game already? Why cant I play my game? It reminds me of my gaming introduction playing cassettes, in they go . . . wait . . .wait some more, False load . . .do again . .wait . . .you get the idea. Then my dad got me a NES which blew my mind. No waiting. Ever. This I thought was evolution and a milestone in things to come.

Just for kicks me and friends get out the Spectrum Sinclair on some weekends when we have our game night (these are original editions which we personally bought, not ebayed claiming we 'remember' these computers knowing full well we never even heard/or owned it before) . . . a common gripe I have with gamers today telling me "how it was", from someone clearly 10 years younger than me . . . I digress. Anyway.

On these meets we sit and wait for the game to load off a cassette. We don't expect graphics like today we don't even mock them when we are playing, this is just tech evolution but we spent nearly twice as long on a game we played a thousand times before on a much inferior console/computer. We literally have the weeks new releases and have give them no more than an hour before we get that same old feeling and go back to crushing hi score. Don't get me wrong some latest games have blown us all away but if you think of all the massive releases over the last 10 years, only 3 or 4 have had any staying power and they are on their 4th instalment.

Another thing, console implies it does one job, which is why I get a tad annoyed with modern gaming machines being called this.

So I say again. Have we made any progress in GAMING since the 80's. Be careful here. I don't mean how it looks and what we can do in conjunction with gaming I mean playing. Why do the older games capture me and my mates attention longer(I have to add that some of these people who play games with us are not 'hardcore' gamers if you like and only play games on these meets) and before blame gets placed on me for being old and nostalgia is getting in the way, it really isnt that.

I sit here and still wait for my game to 'update' (which I replace now for loading …)