Devotion to a particular game series wasn’t just a personal choice it was a practical way of living.īack in those days, I fancied myself a pretty big Mega Man fan, and that fandom was rewarded with several quality games and many hours of enjoyment. We had to find characters and series that worked and then would stick with them, almost as a defense mechanism. Most of us didn’t have $50 just lying around to blow on any old game. I think some of the reason for this was the Wild West newness of the medium, wherein assurances of quality were sparse and hurdles toward playing were significant. Oh, I know even today people get weirdly territorial about which system they will go to war over, but back then it wasn’t just centered around the consoles, or even just the mascots/characters from the first party developers like Nintendo and Sega, but also toward the mascots of third party developers. One of the quirkier traits of being a gamer back in the late 1980s/early 1990s was a propensity for allegiance.
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