I've felt similarly about the vintage game collecting market. I had started collecting old Sega stuff a few years ago, but that's gotten progressively more expensive to the point of not making sense. Learning to use emulators has been a game changer; every Dreamcast game on a mini-pc hooked up to a TV is pure bliss.
ikr?? at first i was kind of ehhh about the whole emulation idea, but then nintendo 64 gamecarts started selling for $500+ online and nintendo itself started doing all this engineered scarcity and i'm like "you know what? no. emulation is good actually".
Been using Emulators since 2011 because I realize there was an alternative way to get the games and it made me trade most of my PS2 games for a Arcade stick lol In regards to AI It's going to be a problem sadly due to other political problems around the world. Ai, Digital ID, and Digital only Payment is kind of tuck in a corner unless someone else speaks out about it.
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I've felt similarly about the vintage game collecting market. I had started collecting old Sega stuff a few years ago, but that's gotten progressively more expensive to the point of not making sense. Learning to use emulators has been a game changer; every Dreamcast game on a mini-pc hooked up to a TV is pure bliss.
ikr?? at first i was kind of ehhh about the whole emulation idea, but then nintendo 64 gamecarts started selling for $500+ online and nintendo itself started doing all this engineered scarcity and i'm like "you know what? no. emulation is good actually".
Been using Emulators since 2011 because I realize there was an alternative way to get the games and it made me trade most of my PS2 games for a Arcade stick lol In regards to AI It's going to be a problem sadly due to other political problems around the world. Ai, Digital ID, and Digital only Payment is kind of tuck in a corner unless someone else speaks out about it.