>>12514131
Titles who are inaccessible and/or a pain to play with modern computers, in addition to arcane conventions that modern gamers aren't prepared for

vs

Nintendo self-propagating their old titles constantly

>>12514131
Because computers were expensive and most people couldn't afford them. Even the C64, king of cheap 80's computers, sold about half as many units worldwide as the NES did in America (not to mention the fact that all the best games required the floppy drive that not everybody had).

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>>12514131
There was no common "PC experience" in the 80s. The hardware was all over the place and not all games got ported. A dos IBM clone gamer in the 80s was in a very bad place if they wanted to play anything besides flight sims and sierra quests. Pc gaming really only matured as the IBM caugh up and then became the standard by about 1990/1991. And then the 1990s it all started again with the GPU wars.
Again from one PC user to another they tended to have vastly different experiences from each othet.

>>12514250
>Even the C64, king of cheap 80's computers, sold about half as many units worldwide as the NES did in America (not to mention the fact that all the best games required the floppy drive that not everybody had)
Everyone had a disk drive on their C64 after the first eight or so months it was on the market.

>>12514250
>(not to mention the fact that all the best games required the floppy drive that not everybody had).
Maybe in poorope, but in the US everyone had a floppy drive for the C64.

i wish you fags would stop fighting. love me speccy. love me nes. the genesis and the amiga had the same processors. Both are Good.

>>12514314
All them are good except the speccy.

>>12514131
80's PC sucked balls, thats why
even the speccy was better

>>12514290
why was the coat of arms changed for the macintosh version?

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So, you fire up one of critically acclaimed title, Life & Death, released in 1988.
And it's like this:
You don't know what the hell are those vials labelled "B", "L", "H" and why you have so many scissors and a little vial??????

Sure, you know what BP and (Oxy) Gas means, but wtf is EKG and how to read it?
You open up the manual and no dice. Zilch. Nada.

So, get this: "L" is Lidocaine, a local anesthetic that can be used to treat P.V.C. (aka: extra heartbeats that disrupt natural cardiovascular rythm)
"B" is Antibiotics, self explanatory and "H" is Heparin, an anti-coagulant.
Also, "A" is Atropine, quickly; it's used to treat slow heart rate, when EKG gets relatively flat. If you mix that up with "A"ntibiotics, game over, Fisher.
Also, that little vial? It's a fluid sampler, needed to check if there are signs of embolism, which in case you have to drain it with a suction machine and inject heparin.

You got all that? Good. Here's another manual printed years later after the game was released.

This game was labelled for entertainment purposes only, by the way.

>>12514370
Because the people who ported the game were dumb and didn't realize the Plantagenet coat of arms only had one Lion before Richard I.

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>>12514250
>Because computers were expensive
True. But once one obtained a drive and a modem all games became free.

>>12514250
>makes up schizophrenic story about c64
>muh NES!
>gets destroyed by everyone
lol

>>12514164
This pretty much. Old computers are just way harder to get into for those who didn't grow up with them. Shit, even a DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 PC from the mid 90's would probably filter the SHIT out of most people now. Imagine handing them a Speccy, a VIC20, or an IBM PC XT.

>>12515026
>Shit, even a DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11 PC from the mid 90's would probably filter the SHIT out of most people now.
windows 3.11 back then was barely useable and nearly everyone lived in DOS mode, which is nearly identical to what most people deal with today. not much changes. and since windows 3.11 wasn't used a lot for everything, most people would be fine. the only time i can imagine them going completely ape shit is over the glacial speed of the computer and storage devices

>>12514131
because no one had them in the 80s unless you were a spoiled rich kid