Re:Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console
by overcast on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:10PM
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People think they want these retro consoles, but they don't. It's a quick novelty attempting to relive those childhood years through rose tinted glasses. In reality, you quickly realize how far gaming has come, and you have no patience for the past. Enjoy those years in your mind.
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Re:Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console
by pukexxr on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @03:56AM
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Speak for yourself, friend. I still primarily play video games from the 80s-early oughts. I play some new games, but largely indie games and puzzle games, so this is pretty relevant to [an admittedly small] fraction of gamers.
Perhaps you are right in a sense though, as i'm happy to play emulators on my pc, and more likely to make a weekend project of converting an old NES into a raspberry pi console than shell out a couple hundo for some of Sega's weaker entries.
Sad to see that the dreamcast hate won; some of my fondest gameplaying memories are with the unusual and stellar titles released for dreamcast. It is unfortunate to see people equating the console's commercial failure in the US market with some sort of failure to create excellent games (crazy taxi, chu chu rocket, dead or alive 2, shenmue, seaman, etc etc)
Re:Sega announces a tiny Sega CD retro console
by apple4ever on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:43PM
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Same here. I still play a lot of old games.