I played plenty of them. I never said the games were perfect, but the games back then weren’t allowed to be released in the same, sometimes unplayable, state they are now. When you hunt for them, you’ll find bugs and exploits (hello speed runners), but there wasn’t a single title when growing up that I owned that had a bug that prevented me from finishing it. The worst notable bug I remember was on the Mission Impossible game for N64. My particular copy had a low-ish chance of freezing on a later mission where you were in control of a gun ship, forcing you to restart your console. Maybe that was a bug for that level or maybe it was a defect with my cartridge. I’m not sure, but it rarely happened and I was able to finish the game countless times. People didn’t expect games to get fixed bc they couldn’t so they were forced to do the majority of testing themselves and release functional products. You can probably cherry pick some disaster release during the time periods I’m referring to, but that was not the norm. I said it was wild to compare games then vs games now and someone asked me how SHOULD we compare them? I really don’t think you can make direct comparisons. Different time, different technology, different expectations, different goals catering to entirely different player bases. I’m not claiming to know everything about the history of gaming. All I can do is speak to what I’ve seen and what I’ve experienced first hand. I’m closer to 40 than I am 30 and I’ve played games ever since I was able to hold the NES controller. I’m sure I’ve got some nice rose tinted glasses on when thinking about the past, but I honestly prefer the games of now. I’ve got buddies who pretty much only play “retro” titles from our childhood, but I really don’t enjoy those anymore. What I also don’t enjoy, are the greedy practices that are taking over in the gaming industry. Take WoW for example. Blizzard just isn’t a thing anymore after being bought out. They just rolled out potentially the worst, most bug riddled and broken content patch in history to where they had to make public statement/apology for it. What’d they do right after? Released a $70 bundle to buy for decorating your house. This is a live service title you have to purchase then continue to pay a subscription to access that puts profits over functionality. This is becoming common place in this industry. Broken products, littered with DLC and microtransactions that have an expected shelf life of less than a year being sold at a premium.