Back in 1989…

Kotaku has a very cool article: news from the past. It talks about the Sega Genesis launch, which i find delightful, as I’ve often contemplated the fact how a new game/console can seem to us soooooooooooooo awesome and cool, like everything, and how we can’t wait a few years and if we do it feels "old". When in fact our old is lightyears ahead of somebody from the pasts sci-fi dreams of oldage. Take for example from the article

Benefits of Genesis include high definition graphics; increased color and motion; stereo and high-fidelity music

Now you can just know a lot of people drooled and dreamed about that, sound familiar? People talk about high definition graphics in consoles… when in truth our HD gaming is often times not even 720p, rendered lower & upscaled. One can only presume that maybe the next generation of consoles, 5 years or more down the line is the one that will actually render at 1920×1080 (which if you think about it is just about 2 megapixels, which for a camera everybody would say it sucks these days)… nevermind that resolution doesn’t even matter as much as realisting lighting (eg. the news on a SD tv looks realistic without having a high definition) which is probabily much further down the line… so my personal attempt is to control my desire & learn to delay games & still enjoy them as new. Just hope i don’t die before and miss any good ones :P