There's a great post at Fosfor Gadgets that simply juxtaposes screen shots from old (mainly Nintendo) games from the 1980s with the Xbox 360 equivalents. "If someone would have presented a XBOX 360 for me and my friends 20 years ago, I'm pretty sure we probably would have fainted."
But those Nintendo graphics were also pretty amazing in their day, especially if you'd played Star Trek using points plotted on a pair of axes on a green screen, entering co-ordinates on a command line ... and before that, exciting computer graphics meant printing Snoopy in text characters on green-ruled fanfold paper.
Graphics aren't everything, of course. People still spend millions of hours playing Tetris and Snake, and I'm tempted to come over all nostalgic for Columns on the GameGear....
