Part of the appeal of old school computing was always lusting after the next computer in magazines that was way out of your price range. It's not like nowadays

Part of the appeal of old school computing was always lusting after the next computer in magazines that was way out of your price range. It's not like nowadays where an unnafordable PC plays games at a better framerate than what you have now. New computers were a huge leap in power. So people want to evoke the spirit of their dream computers. Hardware that they always wanted but could never afford (or often never even existed)