Retro gaming in the future?

[CavZee]

It would be interesting to know where our games will be 100+ years from now.

Hope they end up somewhere "good".

This is why emulation, whether it be done officially or through the internet community is important.

[Hazerd]

It would be interesting to know where our games will be 100+ years from now.

Hope they end up somewhere "good".

This is why emulation, whether it be done officially or through the internet community is important.

I meant as far as who has them and are they in good shape, being collected and displayed, or even actually being PLAYED!

[Retrogamer0001]

I'm curious as to when the PS2/oXbox games will begin to jump in price, or if Arcade and PSN have made those games sufficiently available online to prevent that. The PS4 supposedly have the ability to emulate PS2 games is also another blow to possible value increases.

[BRIK]

I'm curious as to when the PS2/oXbox games will begin to jump in price, or if Arcade and PSN have made those games sufficiently available online to prevent that. The PS4 supposedly have the ability to emulate PS2 games is also another blow to possible value increases.

Hopefully never. I'm enjoying paying a couple of dollars for them each atm.

[darsparx]

I'm curious as to when the PS2/oXbox games will begin to jump in price, or if Arcade and PSN have made those games sufficiently available online to prevent that. The PS4 supposedly have the ability to emulate PS2 games is also another blow to possible value increases.

Hopefully never. I'm enjoying paying a couple of dollars for them each atm.

Same here, it's great only paying as much as i do for them here especially when they do pop up at goodwill(though it seems more likely than not lately on the more interesting titles i would pick up someone either took the disc or forgot to put it in before donating it, especially since I was so close to owning aqua aqua and a few others but ended up not having the disc

(though it's really nice when a few games do make it to the shelfs instead of going to the grid so I guess that's a plus )

[jvalentine98]

I have thought about this and think it's best put like this:

Until a console becomes completely dead, as in no one on earth can play it anymore, this isn't worth thinking about. As it is, there is not one console that is extinct at this point.

If the original Atari is still working almost 40 years later, newer games with more modern tech should be fine well into the future.

[BogusMeatFactory]

I have thought about this and think it's best put like this:

Until a console becomes completely dead, as in no one on earth can play it anymore, this isn't worth thinking about. As it is, there is not one console that is extinct at this point.

If the original Atari is still working almost 40 years later, newer games with more modern tech should be fine well into the future.

Even then, companies will put out systems that can play those games. You are even seeing that now with things like the Retron 5. Even though it may be flawed, it is definitely a sign of how old games may still be accessible in the future if original hardware fails.

[jvalentine98]

I have thought about this and think it's best put like this:

Until a console becomes completely dead, as in no one on earth can play it anymore, this isn't worth thinking about. As it is, there is not one console that is extinct at this point.

If the original Atari is still working almost 40 years later, newer games with more modern tech should be fine well into the future.

Even then, companies will put out systems that can play those games. You are even seeing that now with things like the Retron 5. Even though it may be flawed, it is definitely a sign of how old games may still be accessible in the future if original hardware fails.

It's amazing to think that you could have bought an Atari in 1977 and still have it hooked up in 2014, fully playable, with every thing that's come and gone in between. Those systems may have longer life spans than people.

[Key-Glyph]

If someone walks up to you and wants to talk about your favorite games with you, the exact same games you play, you'll walk away because the way they booted that game up is inferior to yours?

This! Very well said.

I get such a kick out of riding the train and surveying the staggering amount of multi-generational commuters gaming on portable devices. For those of them who are new to the hobby, they were always one of us. They just didn't have the right medium to discover it until recently.

More on topic, there are many, many scholarly articles in the library science community written about preserving video games. Debates over the practicality of migration vs. emulation, the philosophical question of whether the most "faithful" game representation is in source code or convincing appearances, head-scratching over what to do about games with great amounts of user-generated material or multitudes of versions, concern that the realistic experience of an MMO can't be saved for posterity without 100,000 separate players logged in and interacting with each other... it's totally fascinating. People are really working hard on this puzzle.

[Golgo 14]

More on topic, there are many, many scholarly articles in the library science community written about preserving video games. Debates over the practicality of migration vs. emulation, the philosophical question of whether the most "faithful" game representation is in source code or convincing appearances, head-scratching over what to do about games with great amounts of user-generated material or multitudes of versions, concern that the realistic experience of an MMO can't be saved for posterity without 100,000 separate players logged in and interacting with each other... it's totally fascinating. People are really working hard on this puzzle.

Interesting! Can you link to any you'd recommend? I'm a library guy but I haven't read anything like this about games.