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Has buying retro died on Bordersdown?
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Originally posted by speedlolita View PostShare your thoughts on emulation / sd solutions. For consoles I'm less interested in sure, but for the consoles I own there's just something that keeps me going with the genuine article. CRT an all
This makes me sound much more virtuous than I am, so just to balance this out: I used to download a lot when I was younger, and there's many games I wouldn't have been turned on to without having done that. Eventually though, I got far more into having a collection of legit games rather than disc wallets stuffed with burnt ISOs, which mercifully coincided with the time when I had the disposable income to do that kind of thing.
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Originally posted by Strider View PostWow. I don't make half that after 30 years of work, let alone straight after uni…3DS FC (updated 2015): 0447-8108-3129
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Yep live in Surrey as well, although the other half is in Coulsdon, and that may be where I go rather than her come to me...
Originally posted by Strider View PostWow. I don't make half that after 30 years of work, let alone straight after uni…Lie with passion and be forever damned...
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Apart from running out of space, I reached breaking point when I found a Dreamcast in my cupboard that I had no recollection of buying. I had two other Dreamcasts out along with it and I just looked around the room and wondered what I was doing with my money. What sort of person doesn't even know how many Dreamcasts they own? It made me slow down completely and re-evaluate what I was getting out of collecting games.
Ironically enough I now make enough money to be able to buy a few more of the things I would've gone crazy for a few years ago but the thrill of the chase is a bit hollow after the wake-up call and the money seems like it'd be better saved than spent. The high number of fakes now circulating in the SNES market doesn't help at all either.
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Originally posted by Strider View PostWow. I don't make half that after 30 years of work, let alone straight after uni…
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Originally posted by Marius View PostYes, but you presumably have a lot more fun working on Retro Gamer than people sitting in an office staring at sales reports, or whatever office job they might do. Swings and roundabouts.
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I normally just have a retro itch to scratch and I'll pop onto my Coinops Xbox and play for a bit and then move on.
I have a PS3 that plays PS2 and PS1 games (plus those consoles up the loft) if I have the urge to play Stuntman or Gradius v.
I have a Dreamcast for those lovely shmups, but they're slowly moving over to the Switch, and with a Tate holder, it's a nice way to play.
For example, [MENTION=2924]Leon Retro[/MENTION] recently did a Retro Arena: Neo Geo Scrolling Beat 'em Ups and I played all four games listed:
Robo Army - 1991; Mutation Nation - 1992; Sengoku 2 - 1993; Sengoku 3 - 2001.
I had a fun night working my way through them and might go back to one or two, but the thought of paying the prices of these games is ridiculous. Hundreds of pounds, each!
I'm fully aware that I'm not playing these things the legal way, but if I wou'd have to choose between playing a retro arcade game that costs hundreds of pounds or playing a modern game with prices from £1-£60, I'd choose the latter.
As the OP states, I love seeing all of your retro stuff, but I'm happy to make do with emulation and coverart books.
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Originally posted by Protocol Penguin View Post^ my aim for ages was to do that on the side. All those fanzine articles written never helped me 'break through', unfortunately.Lie with passion and be forever damned...
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Personally, I find buying back an old system makes the nostalgia pangs leave me only to be replaced with disappointment and a short lived experience.
Buying back a console or piece of hardware with lots of games makes me want to fully play each title but all I've ever done throughout time with retro is play a game for 30 minutes then move onto the next one. This experience is multiplied X10 with emulation, where it's so easy to load a new ROM, I play a game for a few minutes, exhale, then load another one!
I've come to find that new games are better experiences for me in the here and now, but some games deserve their classic status and I find I want those games ported to modern hardware and given some love, so I can enjoy them again fully, rather than putting up with some of their weaker points, sometimes amplified by the hardware; RGB Sockets, manky controllers, non functioning ports etc.
I think the only games I've gone back to every few years and continued adoring the game to play to competition is Doom, Tomb Raider, Pefect Dark, Super Mario World and Resident Evil 2. Retro is a fickle market, trading on nostalgia for yesteryear and not only does it not always stack up in 2018's lens, but porting is becoming more commonplace so you can get your fix there.
As such, the original hardware is becoming more a museum piece than a functional bit of hardware to use. I wonder what the inventory of Xbox 360 consoles will be like in another 10 years?!
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Originally posted by Colin View PostWhat are these people doing for a living that they can afford to drop a grand on vampire killer? That's what mystifies me, and there seems to be so many people who can afford to do so. I make a pretty good living, but I'd baulk at the thought of a four figure MD game. Are these 'collectors' just burying themselves in credit card debt for the sake of youtube likes?
Now, I'm on nearly 4 times that amount but have to reign myself in when I see a game on PSN for £20! Times change but I do sometimes think, yeah I should spend a few hundred on a mint Japanese Saturn and games with spines, before I start breathing into a brown paper bag and come to my senses.
Gaming is a luxury and fun, if you want to spend a few hundred quid on a **** but rare game, why not go for it?
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I have set myself a target of not purchasing anything old or new for the next 6 months. Must save for property...
I'd like to have a lot more retro bits, but I don't think I will play and finish every game I own in this life time.
My gaming purge is long over due. Need to have a deposit saved this time next year.
I think there will be another thread called "resisting the urge to sell what you can't buy back" or something along those lines
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