“There’s a certain feeling I have when I see an older game running on its native platform that I just don’t have when the same software is downloaded as a ROM, or even as a standalone Wii Channel.
It could very well be some sort of nostalgia, or simply a Pavlovian response to when these games were new and expensive and hard to come by and generally just precious, a feeling completely lost when you can download several hundred of them in an hour’s time.”
Jeremy Parish on emulation and the “ineffable quality to a real game played on a real system.”
tags / ec / emulation / jeremy parish / piracy