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it was great at the time

but it is not anywhere great anymore, yes, because so many different titles have come out that have drastically improved upon what made it so good.

it deserves recognition for that, absolutely, but retrospectively it is not actually very good.

look at cell phones. was the first one good?

fuck no it wasn't. and you can do that for everything. but actual good things that were good then and are good now, don't really apply to video games like it does, say, movies, or books.

and to completely contrast that, some things that were good back then and aren't that great these days are tools. my pair of pliers from like the 1980s could withstand being thrown into the fucking sun, whereas you buy a pair today and it just falls apart after the first use.