by Josh | Aug 6, 2020 | Video Games
Josh’s Diary of a Retro Gamer – Level Playing Field I was taught early on in my gaming career that if you dedicated enough time and practice to a video game that you’d eventually succeed and become the best. This isn’t a given in the current gaming climate due to the...
by Josh | Jul 17, 2020 | Video Games
Josh’s Diary of a Retro Gamer – Cheat Codes The first time I encountered cheat codes was in the original Contra. The difficulty of the game compared to the amount of lives given made it almost impossible to beat. I would play over and over just trying to clear the...
by Josh | Jul 7, 2020 | Video Games
Josh’s Diary of a Retro Gamer – Hard Shells One major event that revolutionized the gaming industry was the replacement of cartridges for CDs. CD’s were able to store much more information than the traditional game cartridge and it gave programmers the opportunity to...
by Josh | Jul 2, 2020 | Video Games
Josh’s Diary of a Retro Gamer – 2D vs 3D 2.0 If you read my last article, you’ll see I touched on the enjoyability of the one run vs the RPG, instead today I’m focusing on the person-ability because as previously mentioned, the one run doesn’t give much time to...
by Josh | Jul 1, 2020 | Video Games
Josh’s Diary of a Retro Gamer – Two Dimensions I got into an argument with a friend recently about the enjoyability of playing games that could have their progress saved to games that didn’t allow save points. He stated that it wasn’t an enjoyable experience having to...
