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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That is entirely subjective but I would say some still prefer CRT and Analog video, which these retro consoles also provide. There are also some benefits for it like no lag and better graphics due to the natural blurring of the CRT but at the cost of space and screen size. CRTs are bulky.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

you can still play them!

Off I go doing a crime again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But... anime-girl buried them, so they're kinda hard to access.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They stole all of her Reese's Pieces.