Rag-X, you are splitting hairs here... It doesn't matter if the random samples are all in the same year or not. There were fewer games released each year 10 years ago than today, so how is this requirement even relevant?
Forgetting about bugs is just more evidence pointing to nostalgia.
I remember a lot of bugs in Civ2 that either required patches, or were never fixed.
Console games have always had plenty of bugs. It's a myth that they are 99% bug-free. With a console game, features tend to be dropped wholesale to make the deadline, rather than be left in slightly buggy, since they can't be patched or improved in an expansion.
Also, P-D never implied he likes buying broken things, just that games in the past were no less broken than today.