I too am one of the "old liners" - 32 years old, married with 3 kids, 1 cat, 2 cars and a house (well a mortgage actually ;-)).(posted 9902 days ago)I guess for me the time investment required to get all the moves learned for the fighting games is just not warranted as these games seem a complete waste of time to me. Especially when there is no urge to get a new high score or a new PB.
That's not to say I don't like some fighting games. I did spend ages playing Karate Champ when it first came out but again that was probably because it was a new style of game.
I also like vertically scrolling shootem-ups but I'm not quite so keen on horizontal scrollers.
I'm dead keen on the cheesy old games and I love simple platformers - but you probably guessed that from my Wonderboy and Pitfall scores. I'm not so keen on the platformers that have such busy backgrounds its hard to tell where you're supposed to be going next. Wonderboy3 almost falls into this category but I'm going to take a serious look at it soon to see if its only 1st impressions and maybe I will like it once I start to learn it.
What used to worry me with Mame was how few of the games it emulated I didn't play heaps as a youngster.... but now with the advent of Neo-Geo emulation I no longer feel this way so I guess there is 1 bright point to the emulation of neo-geo for me.... and of course some of the shootem-ups/puzzle/platformers are fun to play as well !! ;-))
Cheers, BeeJay.
PS: 1 hour and 15 minutes until Monday's work is done and I can head home for another evening of Mame.... :-))))