I love the old hardware experience but (among other constraining reasons) at a certain point I am priced out of the high end. More retro gaming at a decent quality out there in the world is a good thing. I really hope they just keep churning these things out. Plus the mass production pricing is really nice (again, considering the fact that games are licensed as well, which is amazing). 1Up's gear tends to get laughed at be serious arcade collectors, but those folks are missing the fact that these are made for casual players, not hardcore folks who want to spend their entire weekend fixing flybacks and tracing game PCB errors, or likewise folks who can't fit a full sized commercial cabinet in their house. The licensing alone is a nightmare (every cabinet maker to date has been 100% piracy based, and that itself was a problem). I'm pleased 1Up are bringing these games back, and likewise I'm pleased to see a commercial cabinet manufacturer finally seeing this level of success. Variable for things like competitive fighting games is a killer, because then you're fighting randomness when you're trying to get moves out against a human player, where reaction time is crucial. Your brain can adapt to consistent input lag. Variable input lag is the real killer, but if it's, say, 2 frames worse that real hardware, that's generally OK as long as it's ALWAYS 2 frames. Input lag itself is fine, as long as it's consistent. "Peace out."Ĭlick to expand.Yeah that's what I was wondering. I generally apologise for the not-uncommon occurrence of my wording being less than ideal, and thanks you quite rightly pulled me up on my earlier exaggerations. But I won't stop representing that position, either - discomfort or otherwise. To be perfectly clear, I don't intend for the position of low-income retro computing people to ever cause shame or discourage any Big Collectors from proudly sharing their gear any way any time. In seeing us all as equal in that way, I'm not expecting shame from any quarter, because there is none to be had! Only different paths to the same thing: some easy / some hard, some expensive / some cheap, some early / some late, etc. I don't have much worth taking snazzy photo galleries of, but at the end of the day, I can game all-day every-day every-system pretty much whatever-I-want exactly as much as the biggest collector. I'm sure we can all apply those same sentiments just within our own collections, concerning this or that piece. I'm actually proud of the fact that, while others can quite rightly glory in their premium high-cost products, I (eventually) end up doing those hard yards a different, low-cost way and end up with the same outcome. I only posted above because I was quoted at, and the things I said were not meant as digs. I hope my ongoing advocacy for low-cost highly-accessible options for all can be seen as fairly representing a low-income demographic, as opposed to pointless grinching. Click to expand.As I've mentioned before here, socioeconomics makes internet discussions somewhat inequitable precisely because one person's casual easy purchase is another person's painstakingly saved-for rarity.
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