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Message: [QUOTE="TamagotchiTamaHero24, post: 109126, member: 215120"] That’s what I was thinking too. It’s less “Fifth Gen was weird” and more “low barrier of entry platforms have always been weird”. Don’t think I don’t know about the UK “bedroom coding” scene, where all you needed was a ZX Spectrum, a floppy, a permanent marker, and a dream to make your goofy game come to life. PC gaming to this day is still like this. For every game that gets media attention for running at 30 on a 5090… there’s another game right across the street that nobody knows about that’s weird and cool and will give you a memorable time. [automerge]1740968011[/automerge] I’d like to branch off of this too, by saying that the excitement around 3D was a huge part of the aesthetic I’m thinking of. Everybody was figuring out AT THE SAME TIME how to make a 3D world feel like a world and not like a collection of polygons strung together. This resulted in tons of uncanny spaces in games that end up being very bespoke and interesting all this time later because they feel so alien to current gaming sensibilities. But, like, in a cool way. Sometimes I need a Namco Museum from PS1 to get me going in the morning, you feel me? [/QUOTE]

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