But for me, it's more memories attached to what was going on when I played these games. Certain games bring back terrible memories, des[pite being "great". Twinbee, for example.
There are a ciouple of games that have broken the emotional attachment barrier despite being newer; Breath of Fire: Dragon Quater was one, when we actually had really close ties with some of our friends (something that seems to have stopped, sadly) and most recently, Cave Story 3D, where I started playing it the Xmas my daughter cam e to stay with us in 2011.
I think that one is called the RetroGen3. Retro is in my blood. You can tell because look at my avatar. That's actually a photograph!
Yeah, the GC version was tops. I was in heavy competition with my wife to get all the fish. I won.
Somber though it may be, it is indeed the truth!
Old systems obsolete? Hell no. Just aged, seasoned and soaked in chronologial marinade.
Obselecence only applies to stuff that is no longer truly useful. Sure, computers and other pieces of technology like dot matrix printers and film-based cameras can go obsolete. I can't make videos on an old Apple II or use mu Advantix Fuji camera for example. But if you can play a game as it was originally intended, on its original hardware, it sort of makes it obselecence-proof, doesn't it?
I'm not exactly proud of my collection. It really got out of hand a few years ago.
And yeah, I'm not big on current gaming. I guess it's a good thing I'm getting good with my Japanese; I have 30 years of imports to play when the games of today become totally repulsive to my hopelessly outdated self....
I may just need to grab a copy of F-Zero GX then.... erm... wait, do I already have it...? I have no clue!! WTF, this backlog is getting out of hand, hardcore!
EDIT: nope, looks like I still need to get it. Hopefully the price doesn't spike up.
Dude, I seriously need one of those adapters! Super sick that it works with the Wii as well!
I dunno, I have three of these games, and they aren't really all that... maybe I just haven't played them enough...
