On one level I agree with you, but then I look at the retrogaming scene, and how much of a part emulation plays there. There's obviously good emulation and bad

On one level I agree with you, but then I look at the retrogaming scene, and how much of a part emulation plays there. There's obviously good emulation and bad emulation, although for some neither is authentic enough. Still, one day all my discs will rot, and all my physical hardware will fail, yet I'll still be able to play and enjoy the games - and get that same nostalgia kick - through emulation. (There's also the fact that some games are now so unbelievably expensive in physical form that the only way I'm ever going to be able to afford to play them is emulated with ROM or disk images.)