Subj : Retro gaming
To : Nightfox
From : Ksource
Date : Wed Sep 15 2021 12:41 am
Re: Retro gaming
By: Nightfox to All on Tue Sep 14 2021 09:14:45
> Who else is into retro gaming?
>
> I really started getting into retro gaming when I first saw emulators
> appearing in the late 90s. I thought it was really cool that there were
> emulators that allowed playing NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and other console
> games on my PC. Some emulators also had some fairly interesting features,
> such as allowing multi-player gaming with other people over the internet.
I don't know that I'm "into" retro gaming so much as my taste in games just
never advanced beyond a certain era. In 1995, I was playing games released in
1995. In 2005, I was playing games released in 1995. In 2015, I was playing
games released in 1995.
I don't have time these days to play games (kids, you know), but when I do, I'm
sure it'll be the same old games.
I grew up with PC games, so all the games I play are PC games usually, but I
did get into console emulators about 10 or 15 years ago. When I was a kid, the
consoles really were black boxes, much moreso than PCs, so they held a bit of
mystery for me. Now in the emulator we can see precisely how everything was
specced out, and it's kind of cool to peer inside the box a little.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering
with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing
something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles (cartridges!!) was
far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
