When we last left Mega Man, he had just defeated Dr.Wily for the eighth time in his long-decorated career as a boy robot. He could slide, charge his Mega Buster until he was all flashy, and attach himself to his robot dog to grant him the gift of flight. What has changed since all of that happened? For starters, Capcom took a class in minimalism and learned that less is more.
With innovative gaming genres that contained characters now etched in time, games like Super Mario Brothers and The Legend of Zelda were so influential and such landmarks to what we have now that they still define an era of original role-playing games. The gratitude for these iconic games are well-to-do web sites and various retail stores who buy games from gamers, and then sell them back to other gamers. And with comic books and sports memorabilia getting auctioned off for top dollar, you would think collectors would do the same for original games. So selling them must be worth it, right?
There was a time in the land of video games where games were much simpler. It was all about platforming, collecting a few coins and slaying a monster or two. There was never the letter “M” on the front of boxes or the worry that a game might be banned from an entire country. Times sure have changed, but it never hurts to pause from the madness of today and look back fondly on some of the things we loved that are no more.
