Getting Down To Retro Gaming

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By Sarah Phillips


Time is measured in years, months, weeks, months and days. In a year, there are around three hundred and sixty five days, or sixty six on certain years. During that year, there will be twelve months. In a month, there around thirty or so days. Now, a single day will consist of twenty four hours. Each hour is going to come in at sixty minutes. Taken together, that totals up to about five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes every year. So people have to do something to fill up that time, and one way is by retro gaming.

Before anything else, it needs to be explained what a videogame is. The truth is that it is a lot like a movie. There is a main character, there is a plot, and there is some action. But the main difference is that in a videogame, the main character is controlled by a player.

Now, gaming is simple. It is the act of engaging in the playing of videogames. But like all things in life there are levels to it. Some are very casual, only playing on their phone during their morning commute. Others are a little more passionate, become electronic athletes that are treated like basketball or football stars.

There are a lot of reasons for people to go retro when it comes to their gaming. It cannot be ignored that there is an element of nostalgia. When an 8 bit game from the 1980s powers up, some people get hit with a rush, they fell like they are kids again, back when the world was simple, before they had to deal with societal expectations and bills.

Now, there are going to be a lot of resources needed. First of all, there is the system. Some older titles were console exclusives, meaning that they are only compatible with certain systems, which can lead to a gamer having to buy multiple vintage consoles, and those can cost even more than they did when they first came out, even when adjusted for inflation. A cheap way to bypass all that is to simply have a personal computer run an emulator.

Of course, none of the equipment is just going to magically appear. In fact, it will cost quite a lot of money. So would be gamers should be ready for that. Even when inflation is taken into account, the games and consoles might still end up being sold well above the market value they had when they were first released to the general public.

Of course, finding the titles and the equipment needed to actually run those titles will be a task in and of itself. Thankfully, the internet is something that exists. So all that needs to be done is to scour online merchants to find what is wanted and needed.

Now, if certain games are just plain no longer available, never fear. After all, there are public libraries. While such institutions are best known for books, they also have movies and videogames available for loan. So they are a resource that can be used.

Time is limited. But as limited as it is, there is still too much of it. So there have to be some activities to spend it on, because otherwise, things would get really boring really fast.




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