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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Which is why I bought a ~~16 bit~~ [8 bit] Nintendo system a year ago with Super Mario / Duck Hunt and Tetris .... I also bought a little 14" CRT TV that I can plug in to play everything like I did when I was ten years old.

I spent hours and hours having fun with it back then ... I'm having hours and hours of fun with it now.

Correction: I have an 8bit not a 16bit game system

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

FYI, duck hunt was an NES game, which was an 8 bit console, the SNES was Nintendo's 16 bit generation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Shhh they're too busy playing Sonic right now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right you are Ken .... I goofed because I never understood in then as a kid and seldom remember it as an adult ... the original unit I have is an 8bit Nintendo system ... but I've also been on the lookout for the 16 bit SNES and I hope to get one eventually (my favourite on that unit was F-Zero)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you want an SNES that's going to take a while, but it's definitely findable. If you want a device that can play SNES cartridges (along with many others) look into getting a Retron. It's got NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, Famicom, Super Famicom, and Gameboy plus a place to plug in those old controllers.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Cool. Guess I'll leave you and them in the past.

All the best games are cool about providing software resources to players, mod abilities, self-hosting, so on. It's kind of like the Steam license thing. I love Steam but there's no way I'm starting Helldivers 2 or Destiny 2 up in ten years to play nostalgia. But Shattered Pixel Dungeon? Deep Rock Galactic? Valheim? Minecraft. I'll still be rocking those.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just use it for llm training and it'll be OK!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're not allowed to have fun without paying for the privilege.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah corporations are terrified of you having fun without paying money to them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oh no! Recreation!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What's the fucking point of preservation then?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When the programmers of these old titles are saying they’d rather have people keep playing them even if they’re only available on archive site, I say screw the publishers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ugh, playing games for fun? They're not toys!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I feel like locating any kind of a not for profit foundation in the US is not going to end well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Media needs to be future-proofed or else we risk repeating the around 75% of original silent-era films have perished and are forever lost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Greedy fucks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Meg: Well I'm gunna...

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