First post, by senrew
- Rank
- Oldbie
I've been considering exiting the retro scene as a new year's resolution. This past year I'd decided to do it with all of my older consoles, including my several hundred strong Sega collection. I sold off all of my physical systems and games and just emulate anything I want to play on my new desktop. I've played more games via emulation in the past few months than I ever did in the years that I owned the actual systems and carts.
I've been pondering doing the same with my retro computers. I've got all of my PCs, and a stack of Atari/Commodore/Apple II machines and parts. They pretty much just take up space and I rarely ever use them. Freeing up the space and making a few bucks in the process seems like a good idea to me right now. If I can't emulate or outright run something on my modern machine, then I'm likely not going to be finding the time to play it on the original hardware either.
The only thing that stops me whenever this notion comes up is the feeling that at some point I'm going to get the urge to dick around with this stuff again and start sinking time and money into procuring it all. It's happened before, and I have a feeling it'll happen again.
Has anyone else been on this cycle and managed to break it and live a fulfilling and productive life afterwards without guilt or regret?
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B