Whether you enjoyed curling up with Tetris on a Gameboy, rolling around as Sonic on a Sega, or were just trying to ignore the loud beeping sounds coming from the next room… if you were around in the 1980s and 1990s, you will remember the arrival of home gaming.
Computers had made it into our living rooms, and although fans had their favourites – the thrust of Street Fighter, the platforms of Super Mario or the simplicity of Pacman – children and adults alike were hooked.
The market for consoles has continued to grow over the decades as technology companies across the globe try to get their bite out of the gaming pie.
But almost 20 years into the new millennium, passionate players are still looking back in time to find their fix.
« While there’s definitely an element of nostalgia, it’s important to recognise how well designed many of those classic games are, » said technology journalist and retro game collector KG Orphanides.
« The developers had so little space to work with – your average Sega Mega Drive or SNES cartridge had a maximum capacity of just 4MB – and limited graphics and sound capabilities. »
The average game now weighs in at 40GB…
Cheap but cheerful : Gaming for all !
Whatever your reason for picking up an old joypad, you are not alone, and it is not just an activity to take part in on your own or with the family at home.
There is now a huge community of retro gamers across the country who love to share their passion.
That is really what we enjoy in the old games we can still play with our friends in the RetroLovers team and we will not change the wonderful habits of it because of the evolution of the video games that is totally becoming more and more a lonely passion…
We enjoy moments, we enjoy simplicity.
RetroLovers 