This is very meh.. Some idiot paying a shitton for a game, some other tricksters putting carts on ebay for idiot prices does not mean the hobby suddenly became

This is very meh.. Some idiot paying a shitton for a game, some other tricksters putting carts on ebay for idiot prices does not mean the hobby suddenly became expensive.. There's lots of hardware available, there's lots of games, and for the rare titles, there are storage-emulators available allowing you to play your... backed up copies so you're not.. causing needles wear and tear on the originals that you... own. I do think playing on "real" hardware is more fun to me, be it a PC runnign Windows 98, or a Commodore 64.. It's part of the experience to me, so I may not be so "pure" when it comes to the game itself..