Things you never thought would happen with gaming when you were younger

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I read this article my friend posted on Facebook, and it was a reading about technology evolving in general and what people never thought would happen. Examples were that VHS would no longer be used, or that walkmans would be replaced by a little Ipod that can hold a lot of songs...

I thought it would be fun to just have a list of things you never thought would happen with gaming from when you were younger.

Just name the era that you really stated gaming (70's 80's 90's 00's...guessing we don't have 4 year olds on here yet :wacky: ) Then just continue with the last number on the list.

90's era

1. I would be buying stuff for a game after I bought the game (DLC)

2. A cell phone would be considered a gaming device for many companies

3. Sega wouldn't be making consoles anymore

4. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo would try to make you move with your video games.

5. That Mario and Sonic would be in the same game

Nice small list to start, so the next person would put

6.

Please try to have at least a list of 3 just so that this doesn't get spammy with one line responses. (y)
 
6. Oculus Rift. A virtual reality headset is not something I would have expected to see when I started gaming in the early 90s.

7. I'd be getting pissed off in multiplayer matches not at people sitting in the same room as me, but at people on other continents.

8. The gaming industry would grow to an extent that it blows the movie industry out of the water.
 
I started playing video games in the 80's. I was 7 years old.
NES was where it was at.

When I became a teenager my whole world changed and I was being raised to think the impossible and have critical thoughts to everything but as a kid I didn't think about it a lot. I just played video games, did homework, and played with friends.
When I was a teenager I started to care more and I would follow technology and gaming trends.
As a kid though I just looked forward to the next game. A few things come to mind though.

9. I never expected a cheating device like Game Genie and I thought it was silly.

10. I never expected Virtual Boy to suck

11. I never expected that gaming would become a big hobby of mine though now I understand.
 
- Probably the ease of the ability to save games. I was so used to having to play a game from start to finish in one sitting (Sonic, Micro Machines etc.) or having to type in codes for the next level.

- Free roaming games around a city like games such as GTA Vice City. When I was young I thought it would be brilliant if you could play on a game where you could wander round a city, driving any car you wanted and going into every house.

- Multiplayer gaming on consoles where you'd be able to play with people from around the world.
 
15. That my fav franchises (Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy) are still around and show no signs of stopping

16. Seeing graphics as realistic as they are now, we were still in extremely low level polys when I started to think I would be watching CGI that is like watching reality and games getting to that stage is scary.

17. Having to wait multiple years before I get a sequel to anything I liked.
 
18. Downloadable demos. My childhood days involved purchasing official Playstation magazines and receiving demo discs with them. That alone seemed to justify the considerably steeper price tag of these magazines relative to unofficial demo disc-less magazines, and it was exciting to get month after month a batch of new demos. I never imagined though, for whatever reason, that there would be an age of downloadable demos, and an age of perpetual decline for the gaming magazine.

19. On a similar note, digital downloadable games. Being able to purchase a game without having to leave the house, without having to visit a brick and mortar store? Madness, I would have said. But here we are.

20. When the PS3 was announced, and Sony turned up the rhetoric by claiming that it is the most powerful computer, and one that can easily make any developer's wildest emotional creativity come true, I was really excited. After the 5th and 6th generations, I simply assumed that Japan would once again rule the roost. There's no way I could have foreseen that Japan would have such an astonishingly difficult time transitioning to HD, and therefore lose so much ground to the western game industry.

21. Square-Enix at the state it is in now. No one in 2006 would have wildly dreamt of a mainline Final Fantasy game announced that year and still not in shelves in 2014. Or that the company would have had to wade through so much problems as it did. Everyone imagined that Square-Enix in the seventh generation would simply be as dominating and precedent-setting as Square-Enix of previous generations.

22. PC gaming to be as huge as it is now, vis-á-vis console gaming.

23. The seeming phasing out of middleware development. The current industry has become increasingly binary; you go small with indies, or you go big with triple-A development, a huge publisher, and an ocean of superfluous DLC, pre-order content, etc. Who'd have thought over a decade ago that many game budgets would be as lofty as they are now, to the extent that they can seriously break a studio that is unable to make enough returns on their/the publisher's wildly bloated investment?

24. That mascot platformers would almost die out like this, leaving only Mario and mixed Sonic games.
 
For me, it's the idea of eSports of similar style and popularity to non-eSports.

I personally love League of Legends and Hearthstone, but rarely play them. Instead, for example with League of Legends, I have favorite teams and a favorite player (Team Solomid in NA and Copenhagen Wolves in EU, Bjergsen), I watch streamed games live, I love the roar of the crowd, I love the rivalries, and all without being an active player myself. Similar to being a Mets fan or Minnesota Wild fan - I like baseball and hockey as a spectator.

Growing up, some of my favorite gaming memories were not playing always, but watching my older brother play "FFII" on SNES (FFIV, really), and I never thought I'd get to keep up that special kind of joy as an adult.
 
- That Tomb Raider, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot would all still be going on, but all of them would have turned to shit.

- That I would get worse at gaming as I got older. (dunno if this counts but eh)

- That I would play some games just for something called "trophies." (yes I know, I know)

- That there still isn't a Final Fantasy VII remake or a X-3 lol
 
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