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Ks> Re: Retro gaming
Ks> By: Nightfox to All on Tue
Ks> 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.
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
Ks> 2015, I was playing games released in 1995.
Ks> I don't have time these days to play games (kids, you know), but when I
Ks> do, I'm sure it'll be the same old games.
Ks> I grew up with PC games, so all the games I play are PC games usually,
Ks> but I did get into console emulators about 10 or 15 years ago. When I
Ks> was a kid, the consoles really were black boxes, much moreso than PCs,
Ks> so they held a bit of mystery for me. Now in the emulator we can see
Ks> precisely how everything was specced out, and it's kind of cool to peer
Ks> inside the box a little.
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
Ks> of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles
Ks> (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
Similar story with me. I still play a lot of games from the mid 90, a few from
the late 90's and a rare few from the 2000's. Perhaps I'm stuck in my ways,
with the PC's I had in that era, but I don't find much appealing in newer
games, apart from better graphics. I find myself playing new levels for
classic Doom or Quake, than new FPSs. Even the computer I use now, is using a
90's era graphical environment (FVWM).
I don't consider it 'retro' gaming. It is just for me, gaming.
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