They often turned working within those limitations into an art all its own. “We had limitations back then” recalls Gilbert in an email interview, “and the artist worked magic to make the game work within those limitations. Changing the art undermines those decisions. The creator of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, and Thimbleweed Park says that the sin of re-creating a game’s art is that the original artists made design choices motivated by what the technology allowed at the time. Yet some creators are concerned that these changes compromise the game’s original artistic vision. These re-releases often come with new (or improved) graphics and sound, and sometimes include the option to view the game in its original form. Fortunately, there is a resurgence of classic games on modern hardware. For many years, it wasn’t possible to (legally) play older games without digging out the old computer gathering dust in your basement. At some point, systems simply can’t run slowly enough to support games made decades prior. The technology that enables the next generation of games cripples the last. Without intervention, every video game you have ever loved will eventually become unplayable. Mitch Kocen asked veteran point-and-clickmen Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer, among others, when they think it’s OK to remaster the classics But not everyone likes to see their old favourites revived.
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