IMHO, the Golden Age of Gaming was the days of the Comodore 64/Amiga, the Atari 400/800, and the Apple IIe; as soon as the PC entered the gaming world, it went downhill in a hurry! Although the Intelivision was pretty cool in its day as well :)
[quote who="Femmefatal48" reply="43" id="2807436"] Quoting illmunkeys, reply 17 I don't get this "golden era" mentality. Games have always been bug ridden messes. I believe in 1983 or so the entire market crashed due to poor quality and an oversaturated market. Almost any game with any sort of graphics required me to fiddle with settings and struggle through computer crashes. I remember one CRPG, the name is escaping me, where part way
Well, I honestly dont know what you guys have been gaming on all these years however PC games have never been bug free on release. It had nothing to do with Windows, they were buggy as hell back in the DOS days... anyone remember Origin and their voodoo memory manager with Ultima VII? Bethesda was one of the worst companies ever; the initial release of Daggerfall should have bankrupt them to be honest. Or how about the old RPG Darklands from MicroProse? Or maybe Twilight 2000? Traveller? Patr