4/9/2005

The cool thing about growing up in the 80’s is that my generation saw a lot of tech things be born and grow to become the huge complex things they are today. Sounds corny but I can’t help to feel that you can enjoy a PSP better when you started playing on an Atari 2400. We spent hours in front of Pitfall! and Donkey Kong, and I believe we appreciate the graphics of the PSP much more than a kid who never played on anything else than a PS2. And it doesn’t only apply to the hardware, the games too have evolved, but more often than not you can’t beat the fun brought by the simplicity of classic games.

Sony seems to agree with me on those two points. They released a set of classic games for the PSP, and they were clever enough to make it attractive both for the old timers like me, and for the kids. The disk contains the original versions of Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Rally-X, New Rally-X, and Dig Dug. The real original version like you used to play in smoky coffee shop on those tables that were also arcade games. And they made new versions of these games so that if fills the screen nicely (original games were vertical, remember?), and so that colors and sound use the PSP capabilities a bit more. But they kept the new games close enough to the original ones, so that it is fun to play even if you’re a purist.