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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 78 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There were also a tremendous number of absolute trash games that we don't remember because we don't remember them.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I remember giving my NES games away. I had like 200 of them.

The person receiving it went, "Bet you have a good memory out of every game." And I just kinda answered, "Not really. Most of them sucked."

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Out of that pile of 200 NES games, maybe like 10% were good.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, sorry, I was setting up a Bashir/Garak "Especially the good ones, my dear doctor" thing.
10% isn't bad, though. What was your favorite bad one?

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Don't you get he's not one of us, that what he's trying to tell you

Same with any media, really. Lots of people idolize old music in a “they don’t make it like they used to” way, purely because the bad music didn’t get replayed often enough to enter the zeitgeist.