August 2, 2008. The way it is in gaming.

While graphics and gameplay have improved, gaming hasn't changed that much since the NES days. Do you know that just about everything in the NES game is still here in today's top of the line games. Here's a few examples.

The gaming crate is still here. There's two kinds, the ones you can destroy and drop on enemies and the ones that can't get broken even after being shot by a grenade launcher. Why are there so many crates in games? We guess that gaming plots center around invading places where people use crates like factories, bases, and pirate ships???

The girly man is now at least ten years old. Cloud from Final Fantasy VII has gotten even more girly since that game was released. We get the impression that if it wasn't for the limited capabilities of the SNES, there would have been alot more girly men on the Nintendo than any other system to date.

Generic soldiers are the main staple of gaming. Ever since Commando, you could kill about a million of these guys like you can open a can of soda. The AI has improved in a few games like Gears of Wars, but you can find plenty of games where these guys just stand there or run at you so you can mow them down like cutting grass.

The Med Kit has been a gaming staple since the original Metal Gear, and there's no doubt in our minds, that it will remain a centerpiece in gaming health because there's just nothing to replace it. Sure, you can go to the hospital, but when you're on an island surrounded by terrorists, it's tough to get a free ride.

The gaming sidekick is important in games that involve alot of platforming. Luckily, most of those games are on the Nintendo. We never cared for the sidekick. Who wants to play the sidekick role when the main character got all the action and the women? The sidekick character was created as a way for villains to do some damage without having to actually hurt the main character. It's like you kick the other character to the side, hence monicker sidekick.