Does anyone else missing waiting for games?

I miss the drive home from the shop reading the manual so I was fully up to speed when I installed the game.

Of course, this was when games companies used to take great efforts to have proper manuals for games. Manuals started dying off with console games as they really were just plug and play and then we hit digital downloads and you had to put up with rubbish PDF's.

I've just found 2 boxes of old manuals at my nan's as we're clearing the house out after her death, I do miss those days!
 
I used to love going to a little games shop as a kid and buying a load of Commodor 64 games with my birthday money. It would probably take longer for them games to load up than it does for me to download an average game on Steam.

I also used to have to trade in a load of old PS1 games on a market stall to get a few new games. It made me appreciate the games more and I would always play each new game I bought to death. Now I buy loads of games on Steam and play some for a few hours or not at all.
 
i remember saving up all my pocket money and some lunch money from school and going to GAME to eagerly buy MGS2.

Sadly this no longer happens for pc games as well....yeah Steam.
 
Divinious said:
A couple of things I miss are the new game smell when you open the box & being able to play a game straight after it's installed instead of having to download a day one patch.
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Agree re. the smell. I just bought my first hard copy of a game for years (Far Cry 3) and the smell of the manual as you opened the box was a real blast from the past... :D
 
muttclugg said:
I imagine it's partly because I'm a lot older now and partly because I'm spoilt for choice.
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Yep, welcome to the world of approaching middle age and being spoilt. ;)

Being serious, I don't have fibre optic but I'm on 8mb so I don't have it too bad but you're right on both counts. You lose some of that excitability that you had in your youth as you get a bit older.

Being spoilt is true too, the easier you can get stuff the less you learn to appreciate what you do have.

Shame that's how it works but human nature I guess ...
 
more games but less good ones.. its double dilution.

my internet means it would be quicker to go to the shops and get it.. even if it was only available in USA!
 
+1 to the smell of the box and manual from a new game being part of the experience. :)

Sadly, seeing as no games really give you manuals anymore, there's not much point to buying retail. Digital it is.

I almost cried when I got rid of all my 8 bit games... the tapes had been sitting on that shelf for years. :(
 
Omaeka said:
Sell your PC and move to Africa? I seriously don't get the whole 'first world problem' bull everyone seems to go to. :confused: Yeah, some people in poor countries have to worry about whether they can eat or not, but we don't, doesn't mean somebody has to come around and say 'first world problem' everytime somebodies fridge packs up or when somebodies harddrive fills up.

This kinda thing reminds me of the hippies you'd meet at bus stops.

'I just missed my bus for **** sake'.

'So!? THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING IN AFRICA!'

erm... great?
:rolleyes:
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Utterly baffling response. I salute you.
 
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