"You found a big fat Roast Leg of Yak!"

That is my favorite line from one of my most beloved games ever, Illusion of Gaia for the SNES. Now most of you have probably never heard of this game. It was one of the most underrated games of its time but also one of the greatest. When I first played the game I was very young and still very new to the video game world. I didn't hear about the game in a magazine or on TV or anything of that nature. One day my sisters and I found it in a video store down the street and thought "A game with a picture of the world on it? Well that looks interesting!" That's pretty much how I rented all my games at the time. "If it has a pretty picture on it then it must be good!"

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   When I talk to people about how video games ‘used’ to be, I feel friggin’ old. From the “When I was your age, we used to blow on our video games to make them work” fan page on Facebook, to trying to explain a youngin’ what Intellivision or ColecoVision was like, and how cool it was. I am always trying to get copies or emulators for old systems or games like the original Pokemon for Gameboy, or Conflict (the greatest political simulator ever) or Tom Clancy’s ruthless.com.

   I am not out of the loop at all with modern games, but in all honestly, there is something missing that these old games had in spades – difficulty. Yes, modern games have different modes to choose from, from easy to hellaciously hard. Older games, like Pacman for example, had no need – the further you got the more difficult it became, until it was so hard you couldn’t play the god damned thing anymore and had to put in Joust instead, which would follow the same progression.

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