'Golden Axe' (1989)... A classic awesome 2 D Video Game![/caption]If you were born really before about 1992 then the chances are that you probably started off your Video Game playing, playing such classic 2 D video games as, Super Mario Bros. (1985), Contra (1987), or even Sonic The Hedgehog (1991)... And you know what? Having gotten my start in this style of video games, I have found that I still think that this style of gaming freaking rocks!
Now don't get me wrong, the modern style of gaming is awesome... I mean you really can't go wrong with a video game that is getting closer to being like an interactive movie! But you really can't go wrong with a 2 D game!
The classic 2 D Games were an awful lot of fun... And in some ways I think they brought an element that is missing to the more modern 3 dimensional games of the modern time!
What I mean by this is the fact that a lot of the older games didn't have the option to save (and even with the ones that did have the option to save), there was always something about the progress that was made in the game that made you really look forward to the next level, (or in the case of an RPG. trying to find out what was next in the game)... As a matter of fact, one of my favorite games for the NES that I absolutely loved was, Bionic Commando (1988), and since this game did not have the option to save, and I was so far in to the game that I actually ended up leaving my Nintendo on all night and turning off the TV so that I can continue on with my progress when I woke up in the morning!
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'Bionic Commando' (1987)... A truly awesome 2 D video game for the NES![/caption]Another thing that I feel still makes this style of gamming really awesome is the fact that the majority of the video game systems that used this system for it's more recently released video games... As well as the more recently re-released video games for some of the more recent video game systems, is that the game play was not exceptionally difficult, and made getting in to these games quicker and easier, and in some cases getting to the entertainment a little bit quicker!
And yet another thing that I thought that I I would mention here is the fact that the story lines for these games were pretty awesome, and are story lines that helped spawned such legendary franchises as, the 'Donkey Kong series', the 'Super Mario Bros. series', 'The Legend Of Zelda series', and even the, 'Sonic The Hedgehog series' to name a few!
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Liu Kang and Sub-Zero in 'Mortal Kombat 2' (1993), a classic 2 D fighting game for the Sega Genesis![/caption]And yet even another thing that I thought that I would mention here is the fact that, computer generated music may not be a big thing to most, but the truth is, is I have found that the music for these games are still really quite awesome!
And the last thing that I thought that I would mention here is the fact that the other reason why these types of games are freakin awesome is the fact that they are historic, and show the amazing jumps in progress from where video games started off, to the modern X-Box 360 style games!
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