NoonmanR
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2021
I think you're reading too deep into it. I never had a Sega Saturn or knew much about one growing up, but I can appreciate, say, the hidden 4-player mode of High Velocity all the same, or the story of a good game that wasn't quite able to make it to stores. It's just fun tricks you can do with games, new or old.Video game archival is essentially just reliving the past, too. Wanting to preserve everything and understand all the minutiae about your favorite childhood game, in hopes some future generation will have the same experience and seek the same knowledge. Because these people really haven't grown up past the bittersweet memories they've had playing them, and it becomes, again, central to their existence. I saw a video recently saying that "nostalgia is a drug" and I'm inclined to agree.
It sounds so damn childish too, oooh the bad no-no place, oh my!I like how they call it the bad website. There was a podcast I was listening to a bit ago that called Xitter "the bad place" right before shilling its BlueSky. It feels like cave people gathering around a Roomba, screaming and hurling rocks at it while it just gently bumps into the same wall over and over.