Entertainment Value of Video Game vs. Time Since Purchase
Graph by fowlerc, via our GraphJam builder.
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Great graph and so true.
Continuous X-axis fail though
I’m back to playing the original Gran Trismo
Absolutely true for me. Video game nostalgia is so great.
It is, but Duke Nukem and Commander Keen are better.
It’s been about ten years since I got Pokemon and it depressed me to play it the other day. I kinda want to buy the new ones.
You are WAY too young to have true video game nostalgia…
True. I still play Starcraft cause it totally roxxorz.
greatest game ever made
I really like this graph, since I’m a retro gamer. Sometimes I’m very glad that I never sell any of the games I buy.
You know though, there ought to be a 20 year spot too.
I agree. A few years ago I found our old Atari at my parents’ house. That was a great blast from the past! Then Mom threw it away…
I just wish game companies, Windows, and Apple would make it easier to play old games on their systems. Why isn’t there some kind of old-game compatibility movement beyond emulators yet?
I totally agree. There’s still some question about whether downloading emulator ROMs is really legal, but if I had some peripherals that I could plug SNES cartridges, C64 diskettes, etc. into and play them on my PC screen, I’m pretty sure that’d be legal, right?
There is a way you can play, and it’s called DosBox:
http://www.dosbox.com/
I’ve used it in Windows xP and Vista and it works great on both OS’s.
ethan@home:~$ install dosbox
[sudo] password for ethan:
After this operation, 3174kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
If I don’t have the patience to wait for a gui to load for gnome-apps-add, I don’t have the patience for that sudo apt-get crap.
.bashrc FTW
Next to that line they should have Super Mario 3 where it stays constantly 1.00
Saaay, this is just the previous graph upside down!!
LOL I totally noticed this too. It is as if there were some angle template that only allowed Xdegrees +/- 180
I come back to games every two years or so. Games that follow this trend: Super Mario RPG, FF IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X, Grand Theft Auto, Sonic 2 & 3, Mario 64, Vectorman … etc.
previous graph flipped…. FAIL
I fully agree with this graph, as I recently started playing pokemon: Blue Version from the beginning. You know what would be cool? Pokemon: Rainbow. or Pokemon: Time Capsule. It would be a collection of all the pokemon games since Red and Blue, and you’d be able to store some pokemon from each era in a Time Capsule in order to collect-em-all in a final game similar to the modern ones. You could form a pokemon team with the pikachu from yellow version, some legendaries from gold/silver, and the latest eevee evolution from diamond/pearl.
I’D play that game, especially if it allowed you to save pokedex prints as image files to a computer, since I doubt Nintendo will ever make a new GameBoy Printer.
Diablo 2…like this only stretched out over more time
Diablo 2 is still the greatest PC game ever. Period. Assassins FTW
SMB 3, Pac-Man, Goldeneye, Mario 64, so many good old games.
Didn’t Zelda 64 turn 10 about a month back? I’ve been playing that lately.
That means it’s almost time to dust off the Dreamcast, eh?
SO true. For a lot of games, anyway.
Seriously, you can’t go wrong with Zelda games…
Ocarina of Time. Brilliant.
I miss my Nintendo NES… Illusions of Gaia
I miss my Intellivision. That is all. *goes off to play Alpha Centauri again*
Lol this graph is accurate for most games, but I’d say Nintendo games will always be pretty entertaining
You can play all the old nintendo systems cartridges on the Wii. It will go all the way back to the NES cartridges if you still have the cartridges. I adore the Zelda games. You can’t get better than that, oh yes and the Kings quest games. I am an old time gamer. I have played games since the Atari, Intelivision, NES and on and on. I have now purchased a Wii just so I can still play my old games.
I’ve recently downloaded old DOS games like the Monkey Island series, and also found my old copy of Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic! I forgot Terry Jones and John Cleese did voicework in that ^_^
Skyroads and Prince of Persia FTW ..
where are thinking the cartridges fit into the wii
Sorry distracted there,
Where are the cartridges for the NES or the SNES supposed to fit into the Wii.
The Wii will take the old N64 games (CD) alright but thats it, the rest are via Emulation and need to be purchased again.
I think you mean GameCube games. N64 games are in cartridges, not CDs. If the Wii at least offered some screen filter options so I could make the games look better than on the original consoles, that might tempt me to buy a Wii. Otherwise, I figure it’s better to just get the original consoles, or maybe use the PC emulators (which usually do offer screen filters)
(Heh, kinda new ’round here) this chart is INSTANT WIN! i’m STILL Playing The Game Re-Volt for my dreamcast, AND Toy Commander, AND………………
and those games were made in 1999!!!
so true… i just found my old original SIM’s and its become addictive!!
I remember playing the first Tony Pro Skater (The inferior N64 version, sadly) a few months ago, and finally beating it. I loved every second of it, except, of course, the 10-second music loops. But it’s still as awesome as it was 10 years ago.
Two words: Ultima Underworld.