Re: Old Games For The Win

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:38:31 +0200, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
>

It happens in all fast faced games even in arcade games from the rad 80s
for me. :(

>
Yah. I remember trying to beat R-Type in mame a few years ago. It wasn't
that hard to get to level 5 or 6 of the eight levels when I was 17 but
now... And the emulator lets me even save the game but even with save
scumming I wasn't getting through level 4.
>
Same thing with other arcade games. I was never that good in Gravitar
for example but now I suck. And some games seem aggressively hard, it's
not how I remember them at all. I suspect time travelers :)

In fairness to our aging bodies, it probably has as much to do with
our busy schedules. In our youth, we'd play and replay those same
games day in and day out, and it was as much that persistence made us
good at the games as our reflexes. Nowadays, we've actual lives to
keep us busy (not to mention 10 million other games to distract us) so
we don't dedicate as much time to a single title.


TL;DR: results inconclusive. Please re-run Gravitar experiment by
playing it non-stop for 3 months, then re-submit summary. ;-)