alt Hacker NewsHeck yeah. Remember when new games came out and you were actually genuinely surprised/impressed, over and over? For years in a row? Those were great times indeed. Sure, there were a lot of crappy games, but overall there were so many crazy awesome moments. Newer stuff is very iterative by comparison, IMO.
Yeah, back then both the games and communities are great, and there were diversities. But it may just be that I'm getting older.