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Ginsu Victim:

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--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on February 02, 2016, 09:07:05 pm ---I might have an extra one of those as well. I play all of my 2600 games on the 7800 anyway. (We're both in Oklahoma?)

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Claremore, so not exactly neighbors, but I've considered going down to Lawton area a couple of times for machine pickups.

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Yeah, definitely not neighbors. I've never even been up your way (Sallisaw and Drumwright are about as close as I've ever gotten).

Lawton machines have dried up lately.

vwalbridge:

--- Quote from: lcmgadgets on February 02, 2016, 09:15:46 pm ---But I'd trade them all & probably my brother's soul too to bring the arcades back

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How nice of you. :lol

dkersten:

--- Quote from: pbj on February 02, 2016, 04:29:33 pm ---Soon as a new system comes out, I very rarely have any interest in playing the old ones ever again. If the PS4 read DVDRs better, the 360 would have been in the trash a year ago. Wii and PS3 haven't been touched in almost 2 years. I've gotten rid of anything older than that. No ragrets.

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This statement would make this entire hobby ironic (or driven purely by nostalgia).

But it is true for most people. I didn't stop playing arcade games, Atari, NES, SNES, etc. because the games were bad, I just stopped because something newer, "funner", shinier, better, or just fresher feeling came out. Plus we grew up as the first generation to get saturated with entertainment. It got old. So the newer games were a glimmer of hope that we could get interested again in playing games, but it turned out that we were just sick of playing. Now after a few years (or decades) of being in the "real world" and not having time to while away our lives playing games, going back to what we remember best is what drives us there.

Granted, it doesn't fit universally. Some people prefer the older games to the newer games. I go back because of nostalgia but when it comes down to it, I would rather spend my time playing some Fallout 4 than playing DK. Doesn't mean I won't fire up a game of DK once in a while (or play through Fallout 2 for a hundredth time), just that the majority of my time is spent on the newer stuff, which I find is often just as good but in a cooler package. I too go back and watch the same movies sometimes, but more often I watch new ones. Same with books. YMMV.

Howard_Casto:
I never got into the hobby for nostalgic reasons. I started getting into emulation in the mid 90's, which was the height of the street fighter boom in the arcades.

There are two types of people that collect old junk...... the guy that spends 4k in his 70's for a pedal car he wanted as a child that he obviously can't use or get any enjoyment out of, or the guy that is willing to hunt down an pay a couple of hundred for a metal oscillating fan because the 15 dollar one they sell at Walmart is an ugly, cheap, piece of junk.

I fall into the second category..... the "they don't build them like they used to" one. I can't get a lot of enjoyment out of most of the 70's consoles because the games, objectively speaking, weren't all that great, but I can enjoy stuff on the NES, SNES and ect because those games still hold up and the technology advanced enough to where a game designer could actually make the game they wanted to make. You look at a lot of the genres and just games in general from the 8 and 16 bit era and they are good games that they just don't make anymore.

That being said, around the 64 bit era is where things get redundant. Why play Mario 64 when Mario Galaxy 2 plays and looks much better? I have very little reason to re-visit those newer consoles. I think the wii is going to be an exception though because of all those zapper games and motion controls. The old stuff still holds up though..... Mario Maker is really just a mash-up of the old Mario games and Mario Paint and everybody loves it. But yeah, I'm usually having more fun on the Wii U and Xbox One then on the older stuff.

dkersten:
"They don't make them like they used to" is very subjective based completely on your desires.

I usually see that statement exactly the opposite of how you do:
They don't make them like they used to.. a new muscle car will have 500+ hp, better gas mileage, better emissions, can go faster, can race better, can drive across the country and back without needing repair, and is safer by an order of magnitude, so now they make them so much better.
They don't make computers like they used to.. now they are faster, smaller, and take less energy to run (by several orders of magnitude).
They don't make games like they used to.. now they have great graphics, real time physics, better interfaces, and are far more in depth than they ever were.

I can keep going on over and over, but the problem is it is all subjective. Some of the things I find "better" you might see as worse. Or the things I might find "better" are things you might think are inconsequential. And we are both right.

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