by Pdaimaoh on Wed Dec 11, 2002 4:39 am
I hardly ever had the space for all my wonderful PCBs and cabinets...
emulation kicked ass because I finally had the chance to play those games without breaking my bank or having a pocket full of tokens
some games I never got a good home version of, either
or just a different one
being able to play the REAL Bionic Commando and the REAL Rastan since my childhood was very kickass
I found emulation just as things were really getting good, it was just before Snes emulation was getting damn killer and lots and lots of stuff kept coming in all the time
plus lots of romsites, and I was busying myself finding and playing games I had enjoyed in arcades
then I moved on to the japanese games I never got to get as an american
and I guess the last things were games I couldn't find or find money for, and Snes RPG translations
I have a Saturn for CPS2 love, and I had a PSX long before VGS was around
and now, emulation has moved to a time I don't know
I stopped playing arcade games in the midst of the CPS2's endings
and not a whole lot of games did I play, only awesome games like Point Blank, Marvel VS Capcom, and Soul Calibur
so emulation of arcade stuff I never really played and never really cared about isn't so great
the vast majority of arcade games pander to an audience of which I am not a member
the rest pander to a crowd of which I am a member, and that's the kind that get home console arcade ports, so I have a home version of Soul Calibur
do I give a damn to emulate the arcade version? no, seeing Mitsurugi as Joe the blonde guy with an eyepatch wasn't all that great, and I swear the game looks better on my DC than I remember it looking in the arcades anyway
emulation isn't ever going to die, but the explosion of the past will never happen again since so much is always being caught up to so quickly now
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