![]() Attendance at the Summer CES in particular was down in a big way, so much so that the organizers would move the event out of its long-standing home in Chicago’s McCormick Place the following year and turn it into a traveling exhibition in the hope of drumming up some much-needed excitement. The venerable semiannual expo where such landmark gaming hardware as the Atari VCS, the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Entertainment System, and the Sega Genesis had been seen for the first time seemed somehow past its sell-by date now. Let’s strip away the stuff that’s turning off a lot of game fans from RPGs.”Ī palpable sense of ennui dogged the Consumer Electronics Shows of 1994. ![]() “Yeah, let’s take that cool, addictive structure and modernize it. So, when Brevik mentioned these roguelike games, it was kind of a natural. They were becoming story- and stat-laden, really appealing to a super-small niche of super RPG geeks - which we were in a way, but that wasn’t really our style. All of us had become disappointed with computer RPGs because they were going in the opposite direction of where we thought they should be going.
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