What was Nintendo's golden decade?

[SKELTON S. SKELETON]

Im not sure im even interested in modern games

older games have so much more creativity and soul in them

oh okay, you're one of those, great.

Implying his opinion is based solely on nostalgia, lol

your opinion is based solely on nostalgia. "creativity and soul" are timeless, never to be bound to a particular "GEN". saying otherwise is basing yourself purely in your childhood experience when you were basically, a way more naive kid with way less games under your belt.

however, problem arises when the developer doesnt even try to innovate or explore new characters, mainly because they sell games purely based on the title they bear(IE, kirby epic yarn).

it's not anytime someone mentions an old game, it's anytime someone mentions that X Generation was better than X Generation because of Soul and Creativity
i have no problem with old games, Castlevania III is a great game and one of my favorites, but there are still New Games with tons of heart and creativity in them, like God Hand, or Okami, I could keep pointlessly namedropping but the list goes on and on. Part of the reason it doesn't seem like there is though, is because Videogame is very much a culture of immediate death:
When a title releases, that's it. We play it, and discard it. We are done thinking about it, unless it becomes some hallowed treasure or something. You don't see interviews with developers of smaller games after they released like they used to, we don't compare B and C grade games against A list titles. We compare Halo against Halo, and we patiently stop thinking about Halo after it comes out and before the next one is released; that's it, it's over and done with.