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الأحد، 23 سبتمبر 2018

Getting Down To Retro Gaming

By Sarah Phillips


Time is measured in years, months, weeks, months and days. In a year, there are around three hundred and sixty five days, or sixty six on certain years. During that year, there will be twelve months. In a month, there around thirty or so days. Now, a single day will consist of twenty four hours. Each hour is going to come in at sixty minutes. Taken together, that totals up to about five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes every year. So people have to do something to fill up that time, and one way is by retro gaming.

The first thing that has to be done is to explain exactly what a videogame is. Well, most people know what a movie. A videogame is not unlike that. There are characters, a story, and set pieces. Except that unlike the movies, the audience is not just there to watch. Now, in fact, they are the ones who are in, limited, control.

Now, gaming is simple. It is the act of engaging in the playing of videogames. But like all things in life there are levels to it. Some are very casual, only playing on their phone during their morning commute. Others are a little more passionate, become electronic athletes that are treated like basketball or football stars.

People do it for quite a number of reasons. There are lots of people who pick up an older videogame just so they can relive their childhood. For others, particularly younger players, it is history. It helps them realize just how far technology has managed to progress in a relatively short time.

There are going to be lot of things needed to engage in it. Sure, a gamer can just get a regular PC to run an emulator, but that is no fun. For the real experience, the actual consoles from a bygone era are shall be needed, and depending on the games being played, it shall require multiple consoles, as some titles were exclusive to certain system.

Of course, none of the equipment is just going to magically appear. In fact, it will cost quite a lot of money. So would be gamers should be ready for that. Even when inflation is taken into account, the games and consoles might still end up being sold well above the market value they had when they were first released to the general public.

Of course, finding the titles and the equipment needed to actually run those titles will be a task in and of itself. Thankfully, the internet is something that exists. So all that needs to be done is to scour online merchants to find what is wanted and needed.

Now, if the internet proves to be fruitless, then there are always libraries. While they will mostly cater to books, there will be some movies and videogames available. The selection may be limited, but they will be free with a library card.

Time is limited. But as limited as it is, there is still too much of it. So there have to be some activities to spend it on, because otherwise, things would get really boring really fast.




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