They're Classic For A Reason

      X-Box 360, Playstation 3, the Nintentdo Wii, we all need to have the up to date technology when it comes to video games. Anything but the newest thing is considered obsolete in today's world. But today, I had the choice between playing the up to date Mario Kart on our Wii, or the supremely older Cruisin' the World on the Nintendo 64. Originally, I was all for trying Mario Kart because I had never played it before...but then we started with Cruisin' the World...and I forgot how fun it was.
     I asked my sister why it was that the old Nintendo 64 games seem to be just so much more entertaining than current high tech ones are. Her response was "because they're blocky and bring us back to our childhood" and in a sense, I think she's right. Pokemon Puzzle League, Mario Party 1-3, Super Smash Brothers, these are the games I played with my sister when I was a child, thus letting the graphically superior new games be beaten out by the blocky old games of my past. Then again, I think there's another reason. In today's video games, while they can make it look like digitally created characters could be real, are just too much. By "too much", I mean that they think that in order to have fun everything needs to be this huge ordeal.
    I think this is the same principle that applies to why sequels to Disney classics are never good (with few exceptions). They did something so incredibly well the first time, that they try to recreate the magic of the original but make it bigger and flashier. Sometimes, the classics are classic for a reason. When you start adding a bunch of stuff, at some point it just becomes distracting. This is not to say that there aren't good current video games (Alan Wake and Assassin's Creed were the ones mentioned by my sister to be the clearly superior ones), but I just think that when a family has every current video gaming system, but all they want to play is their old Nintendo 64 games, that's something to be said about the current video gaming industry. It's time to go back to basics.
     There's a big difference between Disney and Disney Classics. The Disney Classics started out with instant masterpieces: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Cinderella, etc. up until Mulan. Then Disney decided to branch out, swaying away from their whole princess era to make Cars, Brother Bear, Home On The Range, ultimately good movies, yet somewhat forgettable and bound not to become the legendary classics that they were originally cranking out. When these were not as successful as Disney had hoped, they have now been learning that sometimes going back to basics is best, so they went back to what they were doing before, thus Princess and the Frog and Tangled were created. Both movies that I came out of the theatre with my face hurting from smiling so much.
     Moral of the story: technology is fantastic...but sometimes...classics are just classics for a reason.