Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
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Re: Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
I personally think the downloaded copy should do little to the price of the tangible object. For instance, I play Friday The 13th on an emulator all the time. It's great. But it's not as incredible as my 20-year old NES cartridge. The cart is something I can pick up and show you the wear-n-tear of like an antique.
Re: Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
I concur. And I'm glad you finally showed up on Ars. I've been an Ars reader for 10 years or so now and I'm glad to see you get some props.
Re: Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
I do mind collecting
simply because i believe these systems are expensive
the consoles I don't mind paying up to $100 for something like used snes or neo geo or 3do , but problem is the games, for each five games I will have to pay ANOTHER $100 or so. I mean, some games for saturn are like $100 alone!
soon it gets very expensive playing old games when new better HD games are cheaper, doesn't make sense,
if you are after some nostalgia effect, which i like a lot, it doesn't work either. I learned the consoles are electronics, and electronics die simply because it lived for sometime. and some of the consoles like snes have been out for like 20 years now , spare parts and fixing them gets expensive and closer to impossible. Cartridges and CD\s become unplayable during console life time(scratches, dust, whatever)
what about a 10year old cartridge or cd?
you see its point less to collect to play, even collecting in boxes to look at is pointless, but at least it serves its purpose , to create a museum .
I say buy a retro console to play the games you missed before it breaks!
unless you have like 5 or so of each console and know how to fix them, then you have to buy few cartridges of each game just to insure it lives as long as you want to play.
simply because i believe these systems are expensive
the consoles I don't mind paying up to $100 for something like used snes or neo geo or 3do , but problem is the games, for each five games I will have to pay ANOTHER $100 or so. I mean, some games for saturn are like $100 alone!
soon it gets very expensive playing old games when new better HD games are cheaper, doesn't make sense,
if you are after some nostalgia effect, which i like a lot, it doesn't work either. I learned the consoles are electronics, and electronics die simply because it lived for sometime. and some of the consoles like snes have been out for like 20 years now , spare parts and fixing them gets expensive and closer to impossible. Cartridges and CD\s become unplayable during console life time(scratches, dust, whatever)
what about a 10year old cartridge or cd?
you see its point less to collect to play, even collecting in boxes to look at is pointless, but at least it serves its purpose , to create a museum .
I say buy a retro console to play the games you missed before it breaks!
unless you have like 5 or so of each console and know how to fix them, then you have to buy few cartridges of each game just to insure it lives as long as you want to play.
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Re: Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
Most consoles and games last just fine if properly taken care of, and they are NOT expensive to repair. Plus, if you use emulation and back ups, that's even less wear and tear on consoles and gameskingmohd84 wrote:I do mind collecting
simply because i believe these systems are expensive
the consoles I don't mind paying up to $100 for something like used snes or neo geo or 3do , but problem is the games, for each five games I will have to pay ANOTHER $100 or so. I mean, some games for saturn are like $100 alone!
soon it gets very expensive playing old games when new better HD games are cheaper, doesn't make sense,
if you are after some nostalgia effect, which i like a lot, it doesn't work either. I learned the consoles are electronics, and electronics die simply because it lived for sometime. and some of the consoles like snes have been out for like 20 years now , spare parts and fixing them gets expensive and closer to impossible. Cartridges and CD\s become unplayable during console life time(scratches, dust, whatever)
what about a 10year old cartridge or cd?
you see its point less to collect to play, even collecting in boxes to look at is pointless, but at least it serves its purpose , to create a museum .
I say buy a retro console to play the games you missed before it breaks!
unless you have like 5 or so of each console and know how to fix them, then you have to buy few cartridges of each game just to insure it lives as long as you want to play.
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Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
Re: Racketboy Featured in an Ars piece on Rare Games Re-Issued
For many older consoles this is true, but these latest 2 generations of consoles are a lot harder to repair and quite a bit less reliable. I can't wait to see how few GameCubes, PS2s, and Xboxen are left in 15 - 20 years.
Gamerforlife wrote:Most consoles and games last just fine if properly taken care of, and they are NOT expensive to repair. Plus, if you use emulation and back ups, that's even less wear and tear on consoles and games
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Hmm...I collect, but I collect to play my games. I do have a few cases where this isn't necessarily true, such as a Dreamcast game I bought as a test case to check my DC(it was the only title for sale that I considered worth paying five bucks for in the Tuscaloosa area...sad, but true).
Personally, I think there's another angle I'm approaching it from. I keep my games, if only because I like being able to return to them from time to time and I think they need to be preserved. I will play my games of course, but much like other media, I think games should be maintained, and while I'm not the biggest on physical condition(I own quite a few damaged cases and cartridges covered in marker ink), I like knowing that somebody's got a working copy of Street Fighter 2, that person is me, and anybody I know who wants to experience it in all its glory is freely available to come by my apartment and play a few rounds. Because, frankly, someday someone's going to want to know about it.
I think games will struggle for legitimacy for a while longer, and while I don't know if we'll ever see the game recognized as an art form, I believe it is and I know I'm not the only one. Eventually someone is going to want to know the history of it and how it has evolved over the years, and that's where I will come in. And, with any luck, this person will be partial to a few rounds of Shaq Fu before they go.
Personally, I think there's another angle I'm approaching it from. I keep my games, if only because I like being able to return to them from time to time and I think they need to be preserved. I will play my games of course, but much like other media, I think games should be maintained, and while I'm not the biggest on physical condition(I own quite a few damaged cases and cartridges covered in marker ink), I like knowing that somebody's got a working copy of Street Fighter 2, that person is me, and anybody I know who wants to experience it in all its glory is freely available to come by my apartment and play a few rounds. Because, frankly, someday someone's going to want to know about it.
I think games will struggle for legitimacy for a while longer, and while I don't know if we'll ever see the game recognized as an art form, I believe it is and I know I'm not the only one. Eventually someone is going to want to know the history of it and how it has evolved over the years, and that's where I will come in. And, with any luck, this person will be partial to a few rounds of Shaq Fu before they go.
