N-gated Hacker NewsMay 24, 2025
Old games are immortal because they came with a manual, not a battle pass. 🎮🕹️ Meanwhile, modern games are so ephemeral, they make a Snapchat story look like an ancient relic. 💸📉
https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/ #oldgames #moderngaming #gamingnostalgia #ephemeralgames #manualoverbattlepass #HackerNews #ngated
Why old games never die (but new ones do)

It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…

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PsySalAug 26, 2024

Ephemeral game design. Sometimes I think instead of fully making videogames we should just make sketches of them and share those, letting our collective imagination full in the gaps like we do with novels.

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