Like you, went through all of that as well; I liked it so much that I started buying old computers in the 90s (when many of these were cheap or even free to pic

Like you, went through all of that as well; I liked it so much that I started buying old computers in the 90s (when many of these were cheap or even free to pick up); I have well over 1000 rare ones and I regularly try them (they are pretty robust; I even rarely have capacitor issues). Although I enjoy the real thing more (joysticks, especially Arcade with 2 buttons, are so much better for me than modern ones); I like handheld emulators, simply because they work everywhere. I cannot take my msx, zx spectrum or vcs 2600 on the road with me and with an emulator handheld device I just bring everything, including the dev environments. But I agree; when I really want to feel nostalgic, I take a c64 with tape rec and load a game. Sit very quiet after the load command as any movement makes it fail and you can rewind and restart the 20min game load. Somehow it feels very relaxing to me.