Novelties from older games that you kinda miss?

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As technology marches on, many things that were once prolific and commonplace in the industry tend to fall by the wayside. Stuff like when games used to come with an actual physical instruction manual with vibrant colors and illustrations, cartridges sometimes having their own unique designs that set them apart from the rest of their system's respective library like the GB/GBA-era Pokemon games for example, or even the quantity of bizarre and outright quirky controllers like the DK Bongos or the various Guitar Hero Guitars.

But has there been any novelty from gaming's past that you kinda miss?
 
When 16 bits was considered. "Cool"
 
>skilled enough to get a mew

you mean lucky enough, right?

anyhow i do think the culture of false rumors and such was a neat product of the early internet and things like the pokegods fascinate me, i love reading about that stuff
 
Music made from MiDi. Games like Smash Bros. on 64 or Pokemon Gold on Game Boy Color getting their music messed up because of too many sound effects playing. And also, getting terrifying music composed of glitchy sound effects when you corrupt cheats for your Super Mario 64 cartridge (watch PBG runs of a hacked Mario 64 or his Mario 64 hacks video hear what I mean)
 
Link327 said:
I remeber something called the power glove. The most impressive piece of tech at the time for consumers. Catch: It played like trying to play SMO without cappy, coinless, no moving.
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Gimmicks that don't work the way they intend isn't that old, just ask the Kinect.