Welcome to the 80s

[Arctic]

Looking at steam today and it seems to have made a massive step back to the 80s.

These new games on steam would be great 20 or even 30 years ago.

Is steam just about done do we think?

[Zoopy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย rthibodeau2009:

I agree. There has been an amazing lack of decent new games over the last year. In the past, I looked forward to going bankrupt during Steam sales. But I bought nothing during the last two big sales.

Whatever is going on behind the scenes needs to be worked out.

Have you considered that maybe that is because you own everything on Steam that you want to own?

I bought 2 or 3 games on major sales last year, because I started buying Steam games in 2011 and I now own all the 'older' games that I wanted and the new games that I'm interested in I usually buy throughout the year. That's why I rarely buy on major Steam sales now, because I already own most of what I want.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Yeah, same here.

Most of my big sale purchases are gifts these days.

[goggenheimer]

wadawd

[KaliTrin23]

I agree. Games from the 80's graphics wise are more common on steam lately. I think steam did this to make the steam box more appealing.

[Zoopy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย NoGodExist:

I agree. Games from the 80's graphics wise are more common on steam lately. I think steam did this to make the steam box more appealing.

Mate, games from the 80s didn't look like what you find on Steam. What you're seeing is late 90s and early 2000s.

[OldMemes.biz]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Arctic:

Looking at steam today and it seems to have made a massive step back to the 80s.

These new games on steam would be great 20 or even 30 years ago.

Is steam just about done do we think?

I for one would welcome the 80s.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I wonder if there are some people here who, when "the 80s" is mentioned, think of games like the Atari E.T., and others that think of NES classics like Castlevania and Mega Man. Because there's quite a very, very wide difference between them, despite them being both games from the 1980s.

[OldMemes.biz]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย QuintSakugarne:

I wonder if there are some people here who, when "the 80s" is mentioned, think of games like the Atari E.T., and others that think of NES classics like Castlevania and Mega Man. Because there's quite a very, very wide difference between them, despite them being both games from the 1980s.

E.T. almost killed electronic gaming. Really put it in a slmp for a few years.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I hear they finally dug up E.T..

[OldMemes.biz]

The paving over incident is an old wive's tale.

[Kuladhar Dorabjee]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sir Gordon of Ramsay:

The paving over incident is an old wive's tale.

No a documentary crew legitamately found the pile of the cartriges in a dig set out somewhere in the middle of a desert about a month ago

[OldMemes.biz]

hard evidence?

[Satoru]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sir Gordon of Ramsay:

hard evidence?

http://news.xbox.com/2014/04/ent-atari-dig

[Kuladhar Dorabjee]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Satoru:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sir Gordon of Ramsay:

hard evidence?

http://news.xbox.com/2014/04/ent-atari-dig

Yep, welp thats another mystery checked off

[Satoru]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย The Red Panda:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Satoru:

http://news.xbox.com/2014/04/ent-atari-dig

Yep, welp thats another mystery checked off

I suspect the reason for the dump is goign to be somewhat mundane. Probably just 'this is taking up so much warehouse space lets just dump it" kind of thing. And in the 80s the environmental standards were 'lax' (which is an understatement).