ThinkpadIL wrote on 2022-07-17, 04:47:
It is interesting that some people even after 30-40 years are still looking for the same painful way to play those old games. Now you have the money and old hardware is quite cheap, why not buying the best possible configuration for your childhood game? Why to suffer the same old pain? 🙄
It sometimes confuses myself.
While personally, I just love to tinker with my childhood tech, I'm not absolutely period-correct.
Things like RAM and disk space are installed by demand, not by period-correctness.
To answer your questions, I have some theories:
a) Nostalgia (light). People want to experience games the way they were meant to be.
Or what they think the developers had in mind. 😉
b) People want to re-live the old days, exactly as they remember.
They want to go back to the more carefree times, when they had the time of their life.
To do so, they need to recreate old setups and surround themselves with things from back then.
Some even create a little man cave (a private room) in the style of that time.
Only then, the illusion of living in the past again is perfect.
Every little false nuance, like a boot-up screen with a high amount of memory or a 2000+ copyright string is ruining it.
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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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