I just started the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die last night, and I must say, it makes me feel old. Not only are the games I grew up with in the 1980s derided by game designer Peter Molyneux in the preface, the games in the era I grew up with - I quit playing regularly somewhere aound the early 1990s - only take up roughly 150 pages up the 950-ish page book. I keep thinking: what else is there? Molyneux snipes that "Age hasn't been kind to some of the older entries within these pages" but I still find Pong and Galaxian damn playable. Yes, some of the graphics were awful - future generations were wonder just how we were entertained by an Atari game with a blocky dragon that resembled an uppercase Q - but they still work for me. Anyway, I'll keep you posted on how the book progresses.
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