Comment on Hot take: Get your game reviews from gamers, not from collectors
Whateley@lemm.ee 6 days agoIt sucks, really. I prefer playing on original hardware but the collectors market has made that nearly impossible. I’d love to own all my favorite SNES games from my childhood but that is going to cost me around $1200 just for a few titles. That’s almost my mortgage payment for video games.
This is why emulation is such a godsend. It gives enthusiasts access to the game without having to navigate around shitbirds asking $400 for a trash repro copy of Chrono Trigger.
I’m just the opposite.
I still own my SNES and all of its games from back in the day (and an NES, an original XBox and a PSX with their games), and they’re all in boxes in my garage. Pretty much as soon as emulation became viable, that became my preferred way to play, since I don’t have screw with wires and connections and consoles and cartridges or discs and all the rest of that clutter. I just click on an icon, select a game from a list, and away I go.
xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I use Flashcards wherever I can. Maybe that’s something for you to look into.