It's going to suck in 10 years when Gen Alpha start getting nostalgic for mobile games (hexbear.net)

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God I fucking hate mobile games. It's so sad that's what kids are growing up on now.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

That's... I good point actually.

I also played flash games and maaaaan they were baaad. No nostalgia for them in the slightest

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I had nostalgia for them for a while, some were actually really intricate and maybe even good, and some of my friends have white whale flash games lost to time. But yeah, there's no tidal wave of nostalgia products for various reasons

Personally my feeling is there'll be some nostalgia for the better mobile games but if there's any preservation effort it will probably recreate them without the microtransaction bullshit lol

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I do think someone else on the thread may have a point that the only reason we don't see this much nostalgia for flash games is because of the sheer number of them, and the fact that everyone played a different one, before losing interest and getting another one. It's hard to monetize stick matrix 4 when only a bunch of people remember it fondly, unlike the 80s/90s when a game could be THE GAME for years.