My first exposure to Prince.exe was in the computer lab at school, which has a tiny set of DOS games, including digdug, space invaders and some typing game.
replyI remember when I was around 6 or 7, a boy a couple years older (and therefore, seemingly infinitely wiser) sharing the folk advice: "Play the other games first, don't play Prince of Persia too early or it will ruin all the other games for you"
That is excellent playground wisdom
replyThere's something very of-the-era about fixing a virus-ridden PC and then "improving" it by installing Prince of Persia
replyThe graphics of Prince of persia took me to those dungeons more effectively than any 4k ray traced modern game could...
replyThat's because you were younger. Nostalgia is a hard drug.
replyIt is not nostalgia.
replyI think it's because you have to use your imagination.
replyJust like active recall (essentially guess consciously before checking the answeris) a better way to learn I think the less detail their is in the story (book, game, movie, etc) the more you have to do yourself and so it becomes your own experience rather than someone elses.
Yea, that is it.
replyIt is sad that people easily write off memory of nice things as "nostaliga"! Somethings really were nice.