On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 21:03:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Problem is, it also corrodes the connectors.
Yea. But oh well, it can't be too bad... my old games all still work! Though, nowadays I tend to prefer the emulators. I have a playstation controller on usb, which works for all the old games naturally (there's a clear progression from nes -> super nintendo -> playstation, each is a superset of the next. It works well for Sega too.) No hardware hassles, doesn't take space under the tv. I used to have a real mess of crap in my bedroom, the cords were hideous. Now most of that is on the computer. The computer can also crank up the speed, which makes some of those old games so much more playable! I can't believe I used to sit there 10 hours a day and just grind or use the slow moving characters. (though now I can't do a video game for more than one hour a week, between work, etc., and my eyes just get horribly tired with the motion. But with emulator's speed acceleration, that one hour can go a pretty long way!)
I *liked* that the N64 used carts
I have only one game for the N64: Perfect Dark. Bought the game when I saw it at one of the stores and picked up the system like a month later. Great game, still my favorite of the FPS genre.