Follow

Thought prompted by a discussion with friends earlier today: What games from the NES era do you think aged the best? Which ones aged the worst?

I think we'd say Mario 3 probably aged the best, though I'm not sure about worst. Dragon Warrior is up there for worst, though; outstanding for its time, but a chore to play today.

We're not too familiar with Genesis/Megadrive games, or we'd say something about those too.

What prompted this was mostly thinking about how, in our opinion, Zelda 1 has aged pretty well, and Zelda 2 even better, but the friend in question disagreed, and now I'm wondering about other people's thoughts on this subjective matter of retro games aging well or not!

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!