I don’t think most games are outpacing inflation in terms of their value appreciation on the market. I could be wrong, but I think they’re still cheaper when taking inflation into account
Over the past month, I built an old 5th gen Intel NUC into an emulation station with Batocera, it now plays everything up to and including N64, dream cast and PSX games.
Then I bought a used Wii, threw homebrew and nintendont on it, so it now that handles game cube and wii games.
So many good old games I never had the chance to play growing up (never had any consoles)…
Gaming in the past is pretty damn awesome, especially when you can get just about any game you would want.
I bought an HDMI adapter for my old Wii that’d been sitting on a shelf for years. Fired it up and it still works great! Wii Sports, Mario Kart, Guitar Hero: all entertaining as ever!
Relevant XKCD
If you make games less part of your personality and have other things to talk about it’s actually not that much of a downside.
Relevant community
I haven’t paid more than 10 bucks for a game in 10 or 15 years and I still have a backlog that I’d prob die before completing. Buying new games seems so pointless in the modern era.
Thinking about what old-new games Cueball might be playing today is giving me depression.
“I used to be an internet poster like you, until I took an arrow to the knee” - Cueball, 2026
That’s 15 years not 5
Well, there was the 10th anniversary re-release back in 2021
Guy literally did nothing to stop 9/11
Man, now I desperately wish my C64 and 1541 was still operational. I could go for some 6502 assembly right about now.
Try the Commander X16 then :)
Or the MiSTer, which has an excellent C64 core, among many other cores.
I am going back to red dead redemption 2, whenever that was. 4k 60fps on my TV with high settings, it looks almost too good 😊
No game has come close to breathing so much life into a single world
I’m doing this daily with all my consoles lol. Time travel! No subscription bullshit or drumpf here!
Now if only I could get more people onto the fediverse, and also to Dreamcast online! There’s 10s of us!
I have my original gamecube and games still. Controller got replaced a couple times. With emulation being accessible as it is, I think only a collector (or a speedrunner) would be interested now.
