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When do you think the Retro era will end?
Gray_Area:
I was just wondering about this today in considering control types and uses and such. There are the collectors, who are constrained by repro parts and arcade CRTscarcity....but I'm thinking more of the emulator crowd. The parts can more easily be made than for original classic machines....but how long will the interest remain. When will the demand for IPACS and WIZes and.....stuff.....die out?
paigeoliver:
This forum probably had 5 times the traffic back when I joined in 2003, maybe ten times as much.
However the klov forums have exploded in traffic in that same time frame.
I think the focus has moved a lot towards games running real hardware.
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on December 21, 2012, 09:36:53 pm ---I was just wondering about this today in considering control types and uses and such. There are the collectors, who are constrained by repro parts and arcade CRTscarcity....but I'm thinking more of the emulator crowd. The parts can more easily be made than for original classic machines....but how long will the interest remain. When will the demand for IPACS and WIZes and.....stuff.....die out?
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ed12:
hi
i need not quote
as long as to factor's are alive
1=them whom rember the oringal
2=them whom want to emulate
from there it's hand's down forever
ed
Eldritch1969:
Quote from paigeoliver :
I think the focus has moved a lot towards games running real hardware.
You're right, sir. Unfortunately, this trend towards collecting and making profit selling old consoles and hardware is exploding here in France as well.
I have nothing against collectors, because some of them do it out of love for the games and the original hardware they want to pteserve, show to their children or whatever.
But, there is a new bunch of what we call "rakers" who go to all the yard sales and old ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- sellers and buy at low price any piece of junk, that they resell 5 or 10 times more to the unsuspecting person who just want to relive part of his/her youth playing the odd nintendo games
And forums which deal with the stuff see hundreds of thousands of hits a months...
However, this Retro era as the OP calls it, won't last for long, because it is just a fad, and people will move on.
In the meantime, it is just crazy to pay hundreds or thousands for old hardware and games . Despite what these people think it may not be "better" to play the original games on "original" hardware, because the gamepads at the time were... well, ---smurfy--- for most of them.
BobA:
It depends on your frame of reference as to what is retro. If you go into the future when ipads and ipods are retro then the focus on arcade games as retro may be lost. However the emulation of arcade games may just switch to newer platforms such as newer smart phones. I think the focus switching to real arcade games from emulation may swing back because there will probably be fewer and fewer real arcade games available.
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