<story><title>Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>It is always amazing for me to read about Nintendo&amp;#x27;s history, especially during the 80s and when they released the NES. It is even more amazing when you think about everything that has changed about gaming since then.&lt;p&gt;It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda. Some of the games these days really focus too much on graphics and not gameplay. I felt a lot of games back then were much harder and more unforgiving than games today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zobzu</author><text>i find graphics and environment are actually much nicer in games with &amp;quot;no 3d engine&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;they&amp;#x27;re not nearly as detailed, but they&amp;#x27;re just more artistic&amp;#x2F;pleasant, as if more time was spent in that direction to &amp;quot;compensate&amp;quot; for the lack of detail</text></comment>
<story><title>Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]</title><url>http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jtchang</author><text>It is always amazing for me to read about Nintendo&amp;#x27;s history, especially during the 80s and when they released the NES. It is even more amazing when you think about everything that has changed about gaming since then.&lt;p&gt;It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda. Some of the games these days really focus too much on graphics and not gameplay. I felt a lot of games back then were much harder and more unforgiving than games today.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sneak</author><text>&amp;gt; It is kind of sad to me that the newer generation does not get to grow up playing old school games like Final Fantasy and Zelda.&lt;p&gt;What makes you think they don&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Classic-USB-Super-Nintendo-Controller-PC&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;B002JAU20W&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Classic-USB-Super-Nintendo-Controller-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>