Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUP!!! :matt-jokerfied:
Just get a fucking rom!!! Go to Google and you can have the game on your hard drive in 5 minutes! Chances are your “incredibly rare” cult classic is playable with a high degree of accuracy. Even if you dislike emulation, you can just burn a disc, put the game on internal storage or use an Evercart depending on the system.
We don’t have to pretend we need to hunt down decades-old pieces plastic to access old video games. What’s that? Kuon for PS2 is really rare and expensive? Well I’m going to go download it right now to spite your collector brainworms… AND IT WILL BE 100% FREE OF CHARGE
I just get annoyed when people don’t even mention the possibility of roms and emulation when talking about the availability of an old game.
In the game review space, that’s because it’s anywhere from an unwritten rule or straight up a written rule about talking about roms and emulation depending on how said reviewer is getting their money. Despite the fact that both are completely legal.
The only ones that do mention emulation are usually the ones that also have a bunch of contempt for big publishers to begin with.
