nostalgia nostalgia nostalgia...
In 5-10 years, kids who are young today will look back and remember the good ol days...
The first time their friend Timmy shot a hooker in the head after they got busy in a dark alley in GTA...
The first time they played Halo 2 on Xbox live back before online console gaming was fully embraced and became... "Better"...
And remember the good old days when a simple 8 button, 2 analog stick, 1 D-pad controller layout was enough to play your favorite game, back before Nintendo threw their 2 joystick 20 button, 5 touch screen controllers into the mix......
I don't chalk it up to the gaming industry declining or think that simple is always better... When I go back and play old NES and SNES classics, I enjoy them about as much as I enjoy playing recent classics (FF7, OoT) or soon to be classics (GTA, RE4), the only difference is you get the added boost of it being a "walk down memory lane"...
Although for me most of the time that walk down memory lane is made up of "I remember when I sucked at this game"
When Hot Topic starts selling cool classic "Vintage" NES T-shirts, I think that really says something...