>>2762146>All it does is hurt younger kids who eventually won't even get to play some classic games, because half of the production run is sitting in some 45 year old manbaby's basement. >implying kids don't emulateI didn't grow up with a SNES or Gameboy Color and I emulated the shit out of those.
It sounds like you're trying to project your own frustration onto others as justification.
Newsflash, few kids generally give a shit about games that are too old, unless maybe they grew up with it.
I didn't grow up with a 2600, and I generally care very little about games from before 3rd gen because the gameplay in most seem to simplistic and unengaging to be interesting. If I want to experience 2600 games I'll emulate them, find some modern port, or a recreation in flash.
If a kid born 98 sees an old SNES game somewhere and wants to check it out, his first instinct is not going to be "I MUST FIND A SUPER NINTENDO, AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE GAME, AND A CRT TV", they're going to look to see if there's a port for it on modern systems (like Virtual Console), or they'll go find a way to play it on their computer, as in, emulation.
Just because Earthbound is $150 doesn't mean kids aren't playing it.
