Times were simpler, but the old games are still fun.
At the start of the pandemic, a friend gave me all of his old Atari 2600 carts. A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to trying Miniature Golf. The graphics are terrible by any post-1982 standard, and the hand-drawn screenshots in the paper catalogs of yesteryear made it look worse, so hardly anyone bought it. But it's actually a pretty good game. You can sit down with and play for several hours while relaxing, instead of gnashing your teeth and swearing at other players.
Ditto for the regular Atari 2600 Golf. Looks terrible. But once you go a few rounds, it's a really nice game.
This reminds me of Doctor Who from the 70s and 80s. The effects, props, costumes, etc were absolutely awful. But the stories were, generally, great.
Most people dismiss Atari 2600 because they cannot get past the visual “deficiencies “by today’s standards. But if you can suspend that and play a game like Adventure or Golf, you might find yourself hitting the reset button to play again for several hours...
