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
For a lot of these g*me reviewer types getting a physical copy of a game is part collector brain and status symbol. If you want to enjoy the game for the sake of enjoying the game there is basically no reason not to download the ROM save in those rare cases where that specific game doesn’t emulate well or there is no emulator at all. And these days those limitations are rapidly shrinking
Collectors are a scourge on the hobby, the drive the prices up and gatekeep retro gaming from new generations to enjoy. Death to consumerism, pirate everything, perfect emulation now!
That’s kinda the thing though, they don’t. Because emulation exists :chad:
I’d love to own a physical collection of retro games and systems if prices were reasonable but thanks to collector bazinga brains it’s hard to do. But yeah, thank god for emulation. And emulation has come such a long way in recent years, with major gains being made in the field.
Even original Xbox emulation is finally coming along. Soon, everyone can play, uh… Blinx the Time Sweeper?
So you would be a collector if it weren’t for all those other pesky collectors buying stuff?
Pretty sure most of these reviewers are pirating shit and just talk about where you can buy it as legal cover.
