I'm Glad I Enjoy Older Stuff

Before my daughter was born, I hosted a retro gaming night. I had recently acquired a PS2 and 32" Sony CRT and was looking forward to a night of fighting bots in Medal of Honor and chasing each other with RC helicopters in 007 Nightfire. I loaded up the 1TB HDD (total overkill I know) on the PS2 with every game from my childhood that had split screen. When the night finally came around, we booted up the PS2 and started with Rising Sun. Immediately the comments were "wow these controls are clunky", "how did we enjoy this as kids?". Feeling bad, I suggested we switch games to Nightfire, which brought on the same comments. I get it, modern games have refined controls, faster frame rates, better graphics, etc. But to me, those older games had more charm. Mastering the controls is part of the competition when playing split screen. We eventually landed on a copy of Worms we burnt to a CD-R and threw into the PS1. That stuck for the rest of the night and was a absolute blast. I guess Worms…