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People think they want these retro consoles, but they don't. It's a quick novelty attempting to relive those childhood years through rose tinted glasses. In rea
by overcast 4y ago
People think they want these retro consoles, but they don't. It's a quick novelty attempting to relive those childhood years through rose tinted glasses. In reality, you quickly realize how far gaming has come, and you have no patience for the past. Enjoy those years in your mind.
- pukexxr 4y agoSpeak for yourself, friend. I still primarily play video games from the 80s-early oughts. I play some new games, but largely indie games and puzzle games, so this is pretty relevant to [an admittedly small] fraction of gamers. Perhaps you are right in a sense though, as i'm happy to play emulators on my pc, and more likely to make a weekend project of converting an old NES into a raspberry pi console than shell out a couple hundo for some of Sega's weaker entries. Sad to see that the dreamcast hate won; some of my fondest gameplaying memories are with the unusual and stellar titles released for dreamcast. It is unfortunate to see people equating the console's commercial failure in the US market with some sort of failure to create excellent games (crazy taxi, chu chu rocket, dead or alive 2, shenmue, seaman, etc etc)
- apple4ever 4y agoSame here. I still play a lot of old games.