Re: Old Games For The Win

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:28:56 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:06:46 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:55:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:46:44 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

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Tangentially related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pp6yfJmKFg

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Gaming in your 30s? Really? Try gaming after 45, when all your twitch
skills have completely left you and you can't beat the AI in a button
mashing contest any more.

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Haha, my twitch skills left after 30! :P Funny, I used to hate turn
based games, but I love turn based games. :D

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I judge my rate of decline by how fast I can drive in racing games. I
used to be able to handle the turns at 280mph, no problem. Now I
struggle at half that. ;-)
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Admittedly, not an exact science since modern games have more
realistic physics so comparing my performance playing
games-of-yesteryear to new titles isn't an apples-to-apples
comparison, but even going back to the original "Need for Speed" I
definitely notice I can't keep up as easily. I tell myself it's
because I'm out of practice with that map, but I inside I know better.
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NFS is arcade physics for sure. If you're struggling with Asetto, that's
because it's Asetto. Race driving be hard.

At this rate, I figure that in another twenty years I will be playing
the newest NASCAR lane by driving in the right lane at 20mph with my
turn-signal permanently engaged ;-)
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Never! Besides, if you do that, you'll want to be in the overtake lane.
(If that's the right lane because counterclockwise, my bad.)

My mind, on the other hand, is as sharp as it ever was!
(which you can take to mean however you like ;-)
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All I know is I started losing Will Flower in Mario Party 6 to CPU "Hard"
at around age 45. Couldn't always button mash fast enough to beat the CPU
any more, and I used to do so pretty handily.

Now I can't win at all. :^(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN187wi5Gbg

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Zag

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