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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

IN MY DAY WE HAD A STICK AND A HOOP AND WE WERE HAPPY

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm my day that wasn't far from the truth. We don't need quality games machines but they're a very nice luxury.

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  • Quality is exactly what we need in games machines.

    Not meaningless iteration and oppressive corporate greed. The 2600 was a quality machine - you can still find working VCS consoles in the wild - and when they fail, it's usually something that can be fixed by the owner of the console. It doesn't die because software tells it to die, or because of a known manufacturing fault where a simple fix was ignored because it wouldn't have been profitable. The same can (mostly) be said of NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, SNES, and even TG16/PC Engine.

    Beyond that, I expect that 32-bit machines and forward should still work, even if disk rot is affecting the ones that weren't cartridge based.

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  • Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don't need the new one.

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