I was just recently thinking about how people today in 2015 are still developing for the NES a console made in the 1980's and wondered. Would people still develop for this system 50 years from now?
I think one of the main reasons why people still developing for the NES today is because was a very popular console. Many people including myself owned on. Some of those people who owned one also probably thought about what it would be like to make their own game and have it run on that console.
The NES it seems just carries a huge legacy behind it. Many great games were made for the console and many franchises like Metroid and others debuted on this system which still exist today. To me the NES wasn't important because of how fast its processor was or any of its other specs. For me the NES was important because I spent a lot of time playing on it and many important games were made for it.
One of the reasons why I personally want to make some games for the NES is because the system just means a lot to me. So because I care about the system that's what motivates me to want to develop games for it.
And so I've wondered, maybe developing games for older systems is related to having owned the system when that person was younger. If you were a kid when you had your NES then maybe you might have a tendency to want to develop for it when your an adult. So now I ask, what about the next generation? What will happen to development to systems when the generations of people who owned them isn't around anymore?
Would my future grand kids ever want to make a homebrew game for an older system? Wouldn't they be more interested in their newest system and not some outdated one?
It's true that some kids might not have an NES laying around at their house at the present when they grow up, but instead have PS4 and Xbox and so on, but what kids do have that older generations didn't is a greater access to older games more than ever before.
I remember only having just a few NES games when it first came out and getting a new game was a big deal. Now, kids have access to the full library of most older consoles. So because of emulators and the ease of getting the games online this might actually inspire a whole new generation of developers so when they get older they too may want to make their own games.
I think the most interesting thing about computer games is that they don't seem to die with time. Just the other day I was searching on youtube for a play through of some old retro game and many of the videos that pulled up were recently made.
It seems to me that people really don't care if the game is old and if the graphics are primitive by today's standards. The only really thing that matters is whether the game is fun to play or not.
So I think that people will still be making new homebrews for older systems for many years to come.
I think one of the main reasons why people still developing for the NES today is because was a very popular console. Many people including myself owned on. Some of those people who owned one also probably thought about what it would be like to make their own game and have it run on that console.
The NES it seems just carries a huge legacy behind it. Many great games were made for the console and many franchises like Metroid and others debuted on this system which still exist today. To me the NES wasn't important because of how fast its processor was or any of its other specs. For me the NES was important because I spent a lot of time playing on it and many important games were made for it.
One of the reasons why I personally want to make some games for the NES is because the system just means a lot to me. So because I care about the system that's what motivates me to want to develop games for it.
And so I've wondered, maybe developing games for older systems is related to having owned the system when that person was younger. If you were a kid when you had your NES then maybe you might have a tendency to want to develop for it when your an adult. So now I ask, what about the next generation? What will happen to development to systems when the generations of people who owned them isn't around anymore?
Would my future grand kids ever want to make a homebrew game for an older system? Wouldn't they be more interested in their newest system and not some outdated one?
It's true that some kids might not have an NES laying around at their house at the present when they grow up, but instead have PS4 and Xbox and so on, but what kids do have that older generations didn't is a greater access to older games more than ever before.
I remember only having just a few NES games when it first came out and getting a new game was a big deal. Now, kids have access to the full library of most older consoles. So because of emulators and the ease of getting the games online this might actually inspire a whole new generation of developers so when they get older they too may want to make their own games.
I think the most interesting thing about computer games is that they don't seem to die with time. Just the other day I was searching on youtube for a play through of some old retro game and many of the videos that pulled up were recently made.
It seems to me that people really don't care if the game is old and if the graphics are primitive by today's standards. The only really thing that matters is whether the game is fun to play or not.
So I think that people will still be making new homebrews for older systems for many years to come.