Are retro games better because their simplicity, or they are

>>1433340
They are better for the same reason books are often better than movies.
Less graphics means things are seen more as representations of what's actually happeneing, and the actual scene is more left up to imagination.

Limitations in technology mean people are forced into being creative.

Games required good gameplay to sell and not good graphics to carry the poor gameplay.

Simple = fun

>>1433340
Older games offered more freedom to the player. You could exploit the game and try different approaches. Also, you could play it more than once and have different experiences. From a more didactic point of view, their simplicity allowed the player to understand the chore mechanisms and logic behind them. Nowadays players have become gamers and games have become disposable items. This is what we wanted.

No. Retro games are shit. They're made for people with ADHD. Games like Pac Man and Asteroids. You spend 20 minutes max on them, and then switch to the next game. Modern games are better because there's more content to be explored. Unfortunately autists from the 80s refuse to see this simple truth, because of their attention deficit.