The tech in today's consoles and PCs allows devs to design games with impressive graphics, but has something been lost along the way? There's an argument that the luxury of powerful processors and GPUs plus masses of memory can cause bad habits (we've all heard the arguments over optimisation in Unreal Engine 5 games (or lack off).
Now one veteran developer has revealed the things that he thinks today's devs can learn from the tight and efficient games of the 1980s (see our picks of the best retro game consoles and the best retro handheld games consoles if you want to relive them – or check them out for the first time).
