Subj : Retro gaming
To   : Ksource
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 08:38:05

  Re: Retro gaming
  By: Ksource to Nightfox on Wed Sep 15 2021 12:41 am

 Ks> I don't know that I'm "into" retro gaming so much as my taste in games
 Ks> just never advanced beyond a certain era. In 1995, I was playing games
 Ks> released in 1995. In 2005, I was playing games released in 1995. In 2015,
 Ks> I was playing games released in 1995.

Yeah, I think one of the reasons I like retro gaming is because I grew up in that time and enjoyed the games available then.

 Ks> I grew up with PC games, so all the games I play are PC games usually, but
 Ks> I did get into console emulators about 10 or 15 years ago. When I was a
 Ks> kid, the consoles really were black boxes, much moreso than PCs, so they
 Ks> held a bit of mystery for me. Now in the emulator we can see precisely how
 Ks> everything was specced out, and it's kind of cool to peer inside the box a
 Ks> little. 

Yeah, it's interesting.  And I tended to play PC games too.  I had a few consoles when I was growing up, but as expensive as they & the games were, I didn't have a big collection of console games.  One of the consoles I did have was a TurboGrafX-16, which I bought new for $30 in 1993 at a store that was selling them cheap to get rid of them.  And I sometimes found used TurboGrafX games at pawn shops & such.  I don't see a whole lot of old games at pawn shops anymore..  And the other day I stopped at a retro game store in my area - They had a bunch of NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, etc., but I don't recall seeing any TurboGrafX stuff in there..

 Ks> I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started
 Ks> tinkering with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed of
 Ks> doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles
 Ks> (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.

That's cool :)
That sounds similar to the Game Genie, though the Game Genie helped make games easier..  :P

Nightfox

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