Subj : Retro Games
To   : MATT MUNSON
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Oct 17 2022 12:54:30

  Re: Retro Games
  By: MATT MUNSON to All on Sat Oct 15 2022 04:44 pm

 MM> Retro gaming is an expensive hobby. Much worse than other hobbies. I have
 MM> to set a budget and figure out what I actually want. 

 MM> I want to collect Game Cube, Nintendo DS/3DS and some PS1/PS2 games. PS3
 MM> is largely an abomination. 

Yes, if you want to collect the actual physical systems and media, it could get expensive..  Sometimes I've contemplated collecting some retro consoles and games, but I'm not sure I want to put so much money into it.  Last year I bought a Nintendo 64 and a Super Nintendo and some games, but I realized I tend to use emulation a lot more often than playing the physical systems, so I sold them.

I do like retro gaming, and I've tended to go the route of emulation.  There are so many ways to emulate retro game consoles these days..  I've been using emulators on my PC for years, but now you can also mod some consoles (such as a Nintendo Wii or an X-Box) to run emulators and retro games; there are also retro handheld game systems you can use to run emulators on; I've also seen emulators for smartphones.  There's also the more recent wave of the official 'Mini' emulator consoles - It started with Nintendo and their NES Classic Mini and SNES Classic Mini, and now Sega has made something similar for their Genesis, NEC has made a similar one for their TurboGrafX-16, and Sony has made a mini Playstation emulator console.  There are ways to mod them to add more ROMS, too (and emulators for other systems).

There are also some various Raspberry Pi mods to put together a retro game emulator console.

Nightfox
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