Powering Up With 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 very first that needs doing is to explain just what exactly videogames are. Well, they are stories. That is the long and short of it. But unlike more traditional media, they are interactive. This means that the audience is in control. That control may be limited, but its there.

Gaming, in essence, is the act of playing a videogame. This can range from playing a mobile game on a phone to something more elaborate. In fact, the more elaborate games will have leagues and professional sports teams, who are treated as legitimate athletes in some countries.

There are a few reasons for people to go retro when it comes to their interactive entertainment. The most prominent is nostalgia. Plugging an 8 bit cartridge into a system that has been obsolete for more than twenty years trigger memories of a simpler time, before having to deal with things like bills and deadlines.

Now, there are going to be a lot of resources needed. First of all, there is the system. Some older titles were console exclusives, meaning that they are only compatible with certain systems, which can lead to a gamer having to buy multiple vintage consoles, and those can cost even more than they did when they first came out, even when adjusted for inflation. A cheap way to bypass all that is to simply have a personal computer run an emulator.

Of course, none of that is going to come for free. In fact, it will not even come cheap. A lot of money is going to have to be invested into it. The equipment is going to cost money, the videogames are going to cost money. In fact, even when inflation is taken into account, everything can be way more expensive that when they first came out.

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 all else fails, the last resort is always the library. This is because while they are best known for being a place of books, they will have other forms of media as well. While it is likely that the videogames that they have in stock will be fairly recent, there is a small chance that some of them will have older titles, the exact kind that can trigger nostalgia.

Living in the world is not always easy. But it mostly is. But because it is so easy most of the time, it can get monotonous, so there have to be some activities done in order to fill up time.




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