The saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is one most people have heard before. What was once fresh and innovative can be stagnant and tiring the next day. Gamers from my generation might fondly remember being a kid and picking up a controller for the first time playing such iconic games such as Super Mario Bros, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Street Fighter 2. We might even have thought nothing could get better than this.



Years pass, new systems are made, technology improves, and games crossed over into the third dimension. The first taste of this came with Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64 console. This was a time where I personally knew that things will never be the same again. Sure enough developers saw this and explored the newly discovered z-axis, some with success (The Legend of Ocarina of Time) and others not so much (Street Fighter EX). One thing was clear though, 2D games had become a thing of the past.

Now the gaming industry is in an age of digital downloads and 3D televisions. We have elevated our standard