What was Nintendo's golden decade?

[Mutsukki]

Well, sometimes you're not actually bound by your nostalgia, but by other people's. The same way that kids nowadays say that everything music wise from this decade and shit and that whatever was in the past they never experienced was the greatest thing ever (just an example, I do not mean to argue about music quality on this thread). Sometimes just because it's "old" people think it's automatically better. "It's uncorrupted by current design ideas", "this is it in it's purest form", "modern games lack soul, they're all from the same cookie cutter", etc, are what most of these people think. I personally think that's pretty silly, it creates a strong barrier to enjoy newer products, that are (at least supposed) to be improved by mistakes made in the past. I'm not saying that "newer = better" either, because it surely isn't, just that this way of thinking is pretty bad.

By the way, what Meta said was right, a lot of the "soul" and "magic" comes from childhood memories. Playing Pokémon (Red and Blue) as an adult is way less magical than playing it as a child, because at that time it was a huge world and I had nothing better to do. I do believe that kids nowadays can feel that way about Black and White. Of course, I'm not saying there aren't souless games, like New Super Mario Bros 2, which are gameplay in it's purest form with no regard to immersion or style, those really need to be fixed, even if they probably are still magical to children like Super Mario World was to us.