I vividly remember those days when it was exciting to see flashing images on a screen that wasn´t the TV screen AND being able to interact with those images!
My first contact with Maniac Mansion (and I´m sorry to say this, Ron!) was in one of the so called “Disc Boxes”
Those things that people used to share around with dozens and dozens of copied discs where you had NO pictures and just your imagination what the game would be like be reading the title.
It was that sort of discovery that not even playing Thimbleweed Park could recreate for me, just that sort of surprising factor when you never knew what the game you were just booting up would be like.
So one of those disc in one of the two boxes we had said “Maniac Mansion” on it. What would it be like?
Woaaahh, what´s that? That doesn´t look like Battleships, Donkey Kong or Pitfall at all!
What was the consequence of that? Buying legally Zak McKracken and every Lucas Arts game that came after that.
I´m not sure where I´m going with this, maybe that we were more easy to impress back in the day and kinda lost that sense of wonder. Or that taking a step back and checking stuff out even though it looks weird at first might turn out to be rewarding in the long run, even today. It did then so why not now? People love Minecraft afterall and check out how THAT looks.