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Game nostalgia: Strategy games

During the last few weeks I’ve digged around in my hard drives and resurfaced the old strategy games I used to spend so much time playing when I was younger. Strategy games and in some cases adventure games were the only games I was allowed to play by my parents at home, even on my own computer. So, of course, after having spent hours after hours playing certain games during my early teens, I still get a tingle of a smile and nostalgia looking at screenshots from the games I loved then. They had such a special charm.

I’m talking about computer games from 1998, 1999 and 2000, so they don’t have all that super-duper-fantastic 3D graphics in a super-omfg-high resolution. Instead they feature fixed isometric perspective. But it was, and still is, amazing how they managed to cramp up such details on such a small surface – on maps, buildings, and people – so that everyone could easily figure out what it is and appreciate the details.

I have yet not experienced such appreciation of details and addiction of a cleverly designed game since that time. They don’t make games like this anymore.

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March 31st, 2009 in Gaming | tags: , | Print This Post Print This Post | 4 Comments