Are the games today the games you thought you play years ago?

 We're in the year 2010 now and back then we thought we'd have flying cars and jetpacks by now, but what about video games.   What I mean is are the games that come out these days the games you thought you'd play and see years ago like in the 90's or earlier. Do the graphics, gameplay, and IP's live up to your expectations or don't they, what were your expectations?    

To be honest, I can't remember what I thought games would be like back then.

I constantly find myself wondering what my younger, C64-loving self would say if I went back in time and showed him footage of what we play now. I think he'd just gawp silently and piss his/my pants.
 
Honestly, at the time of the 16 bit era, I didn't think graphics were going to get any better. 0/100 for vision there.

 @RobotHamster said:

Do the graphics, gameplay, and IP's live up to your expectations or don't they, what were your expectations?     "

"....if I went back in time and showed him footage of what we play now. I think he'd just gawp silently and piss his/my pants. "

No. That whole 90's vibe where no one really knew what the fuck they were talking about regarding computers and video games messed me up bad. Movies and media portrayed it so incredibly strange. I suppose they were looking for a way to make computers exciting. Virtual reality seemed to be the way things were going, anyway. I didn't consider online gaming and just assumed we'd all be going to arcades and blast the shit out of each other with cool futuristic VR helmets in virtual worlds, like in the movies. 

Yeah. They made Street Fighter 3D. Nuff' said.

I believe gaming today has totally exceeded my expectations.  The quality & the market is massive & a lot of talent has moved into it & produced a multi-billion dollar industry.  There is a game out there for everyone to enjoy from age 5 to 90, for every man, woman, & child.

Hell no, if you asked me 6 years ago what I'd be playing, I would've said Final Fantasy and all kinds of crazy JRPGs. Now I can't stand them, they just eat too much time!

Around 1989 I envisioned future games looking like a deluxe version of that Money For Nothing music video.  Individual grains of grass represented by green flat shaded pyramids of polygons.
 
I guess by around 1993-ish I realized that the future of games would be different than that, but I never felt I had a really certain idea of what the future would hold.  More than anything however, I predicted the games of those times to just keep getting better.  I would have imagined a perfectly realistic Star Wars combat game that played like Tie Fighter by now.  I would have imagined JRPGs similar to Chrono Trigger but even more massive in scope and depth, with the graphics of modern games.  I would have imagined FPS that played as well as Doom but photoreal.
 
Realistically I'm not too far off, but the infinite horizon of the 90's has vanished.  Now I just hope the games I enjoy to turn some kind of profit.

in comparison from where I started,  with games like Gorf at local rural gas n'sip and the 2600... Gaming now is insane. No, I had no fucking idea.   
 
    

nintendo ruined everything

I was too small to think then..I could only play stuff.. Infact, I never had the thought that games would become progress!
Never thought there would be much except my fav excite bike and contras ..
But I have to say im more than REALLY happy how games have developed over the past few years.

" To be honest, I can't remember what I thought games would be like back then. "

Hell no, i remember when 3D games started coming out and i hated them. They looked like... well ass pretty much, i didn't even except 3D to take over like it did. But now i'm very glad that it happened, we just had to suffer though a period with really shitty looking games, but i payed off in the long run.