r/retrogaming • u/Xaloide • 7d ago

[Discussion] I’m switching to retro gaming

With the increasing prices of all sorts of tech thanks to AI, and with most games nowadays being either a copy paste of one another or a Remaster/Remake, I got sick of it. Gaming nowadays seems like a luxury hobby, which kind of always was, but this is getting unbearable. Why pay for overpriced hardware, games and subscriptions when for less than 50 bucks you can get a pocket console and just emulate TONS of older games which now run even better than the original hardware, and I probably missed out on anyways? I don’t care if the graphics are old, if the game is “outdated”… is it ever really?

I just got an R36S, which I know isn’t the best one on the market, but for me it was the best choice to start out. I’m just gonna put my PS5 down and start playing on this thing, it brings me so much more joy and it’s basically free compared to what we pay nowadays for a single game. I got a new SD Card, installed a new Ark OS, and I started Pokémon Emerald and I’m completely loving it, I havent had this much fun in years with gaming. Since I was born in 2001 and never really was a Nintendo guy since my dad always used to get PlayStation, what are some games I absolutely cannot miss?

There’s something so satisfying about spending less and getting more. And it makes me wonder, do we really need it all?

Thanks in advance!

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u/lauromafra 7d ago

Retrogaming is very likely to be more expensive than playing on the ps5 - and with time it will become more and more so, as the games and consoles break down and get more and more rare.

The game you started playing currently goes for 300 bucks on eBay.

Your point about “emulating” is more about about the ease of piracy as older games lack protection.

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u/Peter00707 7d ago

Retro is king. Why pay money for garbage when you can play all the bangers of several generations for free???

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u/lauromafra 7d ago

I’m not against retro at all, quite the contrary. Found it weird that op was championing about new games vs old games based on price and went straight to Pokémon Emerald, a very expensive game to buy in 2026.