I'm a person who never got his own 8-bit or a 16-bit console. My first console was the Playstation that I bought with my own money around the time FFVIII came out. I was so jealous of my fiends because they all had had their NES, SNES or Genesis consoles... thankfully, I got to play at their house. I got a Commodore 128 when I was 6 and a close friend of mine had an Amiga 500. Later came the Gameboy, To stay on topic, yes, the games were better back then. Simplicity and addictiveness ruled over visuals. Anyone remember Gyruss, Bruce Less, Pole Position, Astérix and School Daze? Good stuff. It's not that I hate today's games, far from it. Games still provide some serious fun factor. Granted, the industry is much more graphics-oriented, and is somewhat at fault for creating those Bill-BOX fanboys that know nothing (or don't care) about the games of yesteryear. Still, game like Katamari Damacy and ICO still make us go "Whoa". I breaks my heart to see that fewer and fewer developers embrace 2D games (although some still do, thank god) because "2D games do not do justice to the console we are developing for and thus do not harness the full power of the system"... AKA the Sony syndrome. Now, who wants to bring the Video Game Crash of 1983 up to speed and see how the developers react?