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Is this idea cool, silly or annoying?
NoOne=NBA=:
I would create a central box unit, and then have separate plug-in controllers for different games.
For Joust, you could use actual Joust sticks, and have two buttons (for Joust 2), all with "real" Joust artwork.
SithMaster:
i think itd be a cool idea. but it depends on him, if he thinks it would be nostalgic then id go for it but maybe have the carts contain more than one game. try to keep the complexity down in case someone younger wants to play and get stumped by the whole whats a cart thing.
Kremmit:
Sounds cool to me.
Can't help noticing that it's the younger members that think it's silly, while the old farts that remember the 2600 dig it.
SithMaster:
Whats your definition of young?
NickG:
Me and my bro once considered designing a cartridge matrix rack in which all our cartridges could be placed, then we would press in the cartridge of the game we wanted to play and any other cartridge would pop out and only the chosen cartridge would contact the backplane then the console would power on. This sort of physical interface seems absurd presently because we have such nice emulation and gui options, but it would still have that uber-geekiness that seems to be kitsch lately. Yeah, so I'm one of the people that might get a little jealous if you really construct your idea, but I wouldn't want to hunt down the cartridges.