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A "classic" is whichever games are presently coming to mind, even games from current gen that you consider a "classic". I don't really have a strict definition of "classic" to offer you because my question is aimed a bit deeper.
The list of classics seem to change as time goes on. Early arcade games and pre-NES platforms frequently go unmentioned and forgotten. Increasingly, classics on the NES that I would've always seen in a person's Top 50 list (like Mega Man 2 or Super Mario Bros 3) go unmentioned. We live in a time when the earliest gaming generations are only loved by the middle-aged adults who lived through them, while the younger generations completely ignore the content. When will 90s PC games finally be forgotten? When will early 8-bit classics be omitted from Top 100 lists in favor of their indie successors?
This phenomenon isn't unique to videogames. All mediums undergo transitions from generation to generation where old content is lost and we only have sterling examples from the era that remain. We may have Ovid and Homer, but there are countless more writings from countless more authors from antiquity that are permanently lost to time. A great deal of vinyl recordings are permanently lost. There are movies and TV shows for which there are no longer a master copy, nor a consumer version. The original cut of Star Wars isn't available anywhere except on old formats. The depressing reality is that even some of our most favorite games will not survive the slow march of time.
Which classics do you think will be forgotten, or do you believe that the best videogames will never truly go out of style?
The list of classics seem to change as time goes on. Early arcade games and pre-NES platforms frequently go unmentioned and forgotten. Increasingly, classics on the NES that I would've always seen in a person's Top 50 list (like Mega Man 2 or Super Mario Bros 3) go unmentioned. We live in a time when the earliest gaming generations are only loved by the middle-aged adults who lived through them, while the younger generations completely ignore the content. When will 90s PC games finally be forgotten? When will early 8-bit classics be omitted from Top 100 lists in favor of their indie successors?
This phenomenon isn't unique to videogames. All mediums undergo transitions from generation to generation where old content is lost and we only have sterling examples from the era that remain. We may have Ovid and Homer, but there are countless more writings from countless more authors from antiquity that are permanently lost to time. A great deal of vinyl recordings are permanently lost. There are movies and TV shows for which there are no longer a master copy, nor a consumer version. The original cut of Star Wars isn't available anywhere except on old formats. The depressing reality is that even some of our most favorite games will not survive the slow march of time.
Which classics do you think will be forgotten, or do you believe that the best videogames will never truly go out of style?