Which is why I bought a ~~16 bit~~ [8 bit] Nintendo system a year ago with Super Mario / Duck Hunt and Tetris .... I also bought a little 14" CRT TV that I can plug in to play everything like I did when I was ten years old.
I spent hours and hours having fun with it back then ... I'm having hours and hours of fun with it now.
Correction: I have an 8bit not a 16bit game system
FYI, duck hunt was an NES game, which was an 8 bit console, the SNES was Nintendo's 16 bit generation
Shhh they're too busy playing Sonic right now
Right you are Ken .... I goofed because I never understood in then as a kid and seldom remember it as an adult ... the original unit I have is an 8bit Nintendo system ... but I've also been on the lookout for the 16 bit SNES and I hope to get one eventually (my favourite on that unit was F-Zero)
If you want an SNES that's going to take a while, but it's definitely findable. If you want a device that can play SNES cartridges (along with many others) look into getting a Retron. It's got NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, Famicom, Super Famicom, and Gameboy plus a place to plug in those old controllers.
Cool. Guess I'll leave you and them in the past.
All the best games are cool about providing software resources to players, mod abilities, self-hosting, so on. It's kind of like the Steam license thing. I love Steam but there's no way I'm starting Helldivers 2 or Destiny 2 up in ten years to play nostalgia. But Shattered Pixel Dungeon? Deep Rock Galactic? Valheim? Minecraft. I'll still be rocking those.
Just use it for llm training and it'll be OK!
Yeah corporations are terrified of you having fun without paying money to them.
Oh no! Recreation!
What's the fucking point of preservation then?
I feel like locating any kind of a not for profit foundation in the US is not going to end well.
When the programmers of these old titles are saying they’d rather have people keep playing them even if they’re only available on archive site, I say screw the publishers.
Ugh, playing games for fun? They're not toys!
Media needs to be future-proofed or else we risk repeating the around 75% of original silent-era films have perished and are forever lost.
Greedy fucks
Yeah because I go to the library and complain and scowl the whole time I'm reading. Occasionally I make sure to belt out "I'm not enjoying this! I only do it for preservation reasons!" bunch of greedy fucks.
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