Old school gamers, what will the new gamers of today never experience?

Having to decide what saves to delete because you can't afford a new memory card.

Oh Lord, I still remember when memory cards first became a thing and I had no idea about them.

I'd rented a PlayStation 1, Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil 2.

Cut to me realizing my predicament and playing Resident Evil 2. Cut to me realising my predicament and playing

Resident Evil 2 all the way through to the Alligator before dying. My God, that was awful.

Remember in fighting games how unlocking characters was usually fun and unorthodox with different

tasks you had to do to unlock them? You don't see that as much today. Having no idea what you're supposed to do next in a game.

There were moments in old games where you just ran around for ages,

trying to figure out if you had missed something or if it was a bug.

Now you just Google or YouTube it.

Not to mention there are many in-game guides to doing things such as Questmarkers.

Going back to every town and talking to every NPC hoping to jumpstart the story again was real back in the day.

Putting the goddamn disc in and playing the game immediately after.

Even better, plugging the cartridge in and playing even more immediately after.

Actually, one company never left the system.

Nintendo's always had at least one cartridge

system active on the market since the NES. The awe and astonishment of the huge leaps in graphics.

I still remember talking with my friends at school about how Final Fantasy X was basically

indistinguishable from real life. I remember watching the first Halo trailer on the Game

Star CD and I was just blown away. Could graphics ever get better than that? Going to the

Scholastic Book Fair and buying a cheat code book or a strategy guide. Networking with my friends

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