big10... it has a lot to do with nostalgia... but you also gotta remember that there was NOTHING like it at the time. We were dealing with cheese 2D graphics that everyone was oohing and ahhing over and then... What's this? A game with full screen animation by Don Bluth!?!? WTF?!?!? It was beyond anything anyone had ever seen before in an arcade. And it was worth every quarter someone dropped into it.
I remember people being lined up 20-30 people deep waiting for their 1-2 minute chance at the game when it first came out. When someone got on it that was good, there was a crowd gathered around trying to see how he did it... And marvel at the amazing animation.
Nowadays... Yeah. It's gameplay is merely under-par and the animation can be done on any computer worth more than a few hundred dollars. But at the time... WOW.
I remember people being lined up 20-30 people deep waiting for their 1-2 minute chance at the game when it first came out. When someone got on it that was good, there was a crowd gathered around trying to see how he did it... And marvel at the amazing animation.
Nowadays... Yeah. It's gameplay is merely under-par and the animation can be done on any computer worth more than a few hundred dollars. But at the time... WOW.