Poll Results on 2D Side Scrollers: Bring ‘Em Back!
- Scribbled on June 24th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Humor, Platformer, Polls, Retro
We posted a poll on June 4th, 2007 asking what you thought of 2D side-scrollers, and after around a huge sampling of votes (okay, just around 150 votes, but it’s still a lot!), over 40% overwhelmingly said: “Bring ‘em back on next-gen!” Combine that with the 14% or so who wanted to see them return on all systems, and that’s a whopping majority of love.
It just proves a few things, the foremost of which is that simpler is sometimes better. Do you need a fancy gamepad to simply run in a direction and jump? It also says that people still enjoy older games like Super Mario Bros., Lode Runner and RType. It also gives one reason hand-helds, the last bastion of jumpers and side-scrolling shooters, are so successful, and why games like Prince of Persia Classic, N+ and Aegis Wing are and could be best-sellers on next-gen downloadable services like Xbox Live Arcade, Virtual Console and PlayStation Network. (Okay, Aegis Wing was free. So shoot me.)
Click “Read more…” to see the polling results as of June 24.
My stance on 2d side scrollers…
- The 80’s are over, move on.
- I’d love to see 2d side scrollers return on now-generation systems!
- Side scrollers are for hand-helds.
- Side scrollers are dead to me, I wish they’d just fade away!
- I missed the side scroller era, I’d love to see them come back.
- Good for emulators, bad for consoles
- Two words: Master Blaster!
- I care not for your 2d gaming.
Total Votes: 145 Started: June 4, 2007
June 25th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Five Words: Biker Mice… From ****in’ Mars.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Master Blaster lov’en. Mega-Man rock’n, Battletoads Croak’n.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
The more 2D the better!
June 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
The more 2D the betta