But say if you play, idk... Pacman?
Great yeah I see the nostalgic feel of using some stuffty ass joystick and pressing some sticky plastic buttons but the nostalgia will disappear after a few hours and you'll be left with a heap of expensive time-junk.
I just fail to understand how that's more fun than buying a PS4, a flat screen TV and the latest HD game.
Yeah but the game would get boring pretty quickly. Most people's standard for gaming has raised dramatically in the past 10 years. I wouldn't be able to play any of the games I played 10 years ago for more than an hour without getting bored.
I can totally understand your position. I also play NES games occasionally, but I don't really do it just for some nostalgiac feeling, because then it would get boring really quickly. I mainly play games that I still find fun and/or challenging, like metroid, the super mario bros games, etc.
Sometimes I'll even pop in some bad ones just to see how far I can get or laugh at how terrible it is.
Obviously the games are dated and have limitations compared to even just the snes, but I still find joy in them. Maybe it's just a style thing, like the way each screen is limited to 4 palettes of 3 colors each. It's fun to see how different game companies tried their best to work with what they had.
That said, though, I don't find a lot of Atari 2600 games fun. They're way to limited for me, even just in comparison to the NES. Maybe it's just because I grew up with the NES instead of the atari.
And besides, it's not like someone who plays NES games doesn't also play ps4 or PC or whatever.
Hopefully this doesn't fall under piracy talk, I'm not sure how piratey emulator talk is (
especially considering badspot made an emulator cabinet and posted it on his website lol). But in regards to why someone would use an original system when an emulator would be much more convenient, I guess it's because I just like owning the original cartridge that was sold on store shelves 30 years ago and being able to play them. Besides that there's really no rhyme or reason that I can figure why someone (including myself) would rather use the old system instead, even though I still do.
I actually don't even use the original NES, I use one of the 3rd party toploader designs that emulates the original system because it's smaller and hasn't broken yet.
All of that said, I personally have nothing against using emulators, its just I prefer being able to use the physical copies. I guess that explains why I still buy a physical CD copy instead of just downloading it from itunes. I mean, I don't usually use the CD more than once when I transfer it onto my ipod, but if I can I would prefer buying the physical CD instead. Idunno.
