cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13809164
Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with handicap features, and also to find Easter eggs. Speaking of Easter eggs, you’d lose a number of hours exploring every nook and cranny finding them!
No online play means gramps was playing video games before 1978. Or didn’t know about MUDs, MUSHes, and other online, multiplayer, text-based games.
Technically, even the SNES and Sega Genesis has quasi-“online” multiplayer and streaming back in the 90s. Tho, the SNES one was Japan only, and basically nobody had the Genesis service. 🤷♂️
As a kid in the early 90’s I had no concept of online games. They may have existed, but the home PC was not connected to the internet and played Carmen San Diego on floppy discs.
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