If the early 80&#x27;s was good, then something else must be bad. Perhaps you meant it was good compared to what happened before, or compared to what it would have been if people didn&#x27;t make games. But a reasonable guess is good compared to today, which is an implicitly negative comment about today&#x27;s programmers. I think the reply was quite reasonable - it doesn&#x27;t make sense to glorify the past when the present has massively more of what was good about the past.