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Comment by racl101 | Hacker News Reader

Buy it, enjoy the novelty for 30 minutes, put it in the closet, forget it existed, sell off at garage sale 2 years later for a pittance.

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That is really true. Especially because you can play a lot of old console games (including old Sega games!) on, say, a Nintendo Switch. Or on pretty much any PC or Mac with moderate fiddling.

And if you are a "preservationist", you'll either want to play/document/whatever it on the original console, or on one which is dedicated to emulate the system as faithful as possible, i.e. the systems from Analogue or a MiSTer FPGA solution.

That feels like the majority of hardware releases on HN. Just consumerist crap. The reality is that outside of nostalgia factor, the vast majority of old games just aren’t that fun compared to modern ones.

There are people for who the nostalgia factor is huge. Or will have a great time introducing those games to a spouse or playing with their children for many hours. And these things are certainly way cheaper than a “real” console.

Me? I would do exactly what the GP said. But that why I won’t buy it, because I know I don’t care enough. Even for something I have much more nostalgia for (PS 1) it would have been more a art nick-knack for me if I bought it.

Even if this was true, you don't have to play the vast majority. Your goal is, and always has been, to play the best.

I feel just the opposite. It seems like the only innovation coming out of modern games has to do with graphics.

Agreed. As much as I adore sega and what it brought to my childhood, this amounts to a gag gift at this point.

And create a lot of plastic waste in the process

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