I love old games better ...

[Pat the Cat]

Ummm... I think a few of the old Amiga games stand out really well.   First Samurai, Second Samurai? That's a pretty, classy scrolling beat   'em up, but it's only got so much depth.

I think the games with  random starts have a bigger longevity. They  offer more variety, but you  got to like simulators more than games.  Games like Civilization,  simulators like Microprose. The daylight  scenes are disappointing, but  views like night vision can be quite  "realistic", in terms of a military  targetting system.

Then you master them, and move on.

The  really good computer games are ones you play against other people.   Speedball2. That's still fun. Limited, but unpredictable with a human   opponent.

Any of you ever play Air Warrior? It wasn't bad on an  accelerated  Amiga, but it was horrible on a 7Mhz Amiga. Very clunky.  Kesmai online  flight sim, was OK on Amiga, but just way better on a PC. It was a  subscription game anyway. They did buy the rights to do the same with  Harpoon, but I don't think they released that. Harpoon started as a  paper rules modern naval and air battle wargame. There were some Amiga releases, but single player  only.

Apparently you can still play the DOS version of Air Warrior by browser. I really can't go there on this bag of bolts.

I  think the problem was that the Amiga didn't get the nice cheap PCI  and  AGP hardware, didn't get the cheap network connectivity. CBM  certainly developed some PCI connectivity, but didn't  pay to market it,  never brought it to market. They kind of got stuck  between "home"  machine, "game" machine, and ridicuolously priced and under spec "high  end" machine. The PC "game" machines got  the nice hardware, beat all  kinds of Amiga for price vs performance, and  that's the way things  turned out.

[Pat the Cat]

If anything, and the differences are marginal, I'd say gaming is better today, but unlike yesteryear you have to do a little searching for the gems. There's simply too much stuff out there for big name magazines and media to cover everything nowadays.

Believe it or not, the issue has occurred, died down, and reoccurred again throughout the history of personal computers.

For instance, during the Atari 2600 years, there were so many games available, across different markets, you needed a magnifying glass just to read some adverts about which games you could buy, mail order.

When you get large volumes of releases, across different formats, the problem happens again. Too much data, not enough analysts and commentators to cover everything.