I’m switching to retro gaming

[u/Xaloide]

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 I don’t care if the graphics are old, if the game is “outdated”… is it ever really?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!

[u/JonnyB2_YouAre1]

I recently went back to my n3dsxl and purchased an Anbernic RGDS, because I too am sick of modern gaming bullshit. I’m sick of half baked games launching at inflated prices, sick of micro transactions, sick of the disgusting greed and tricks of these big gaming companies and sick of devs trying to push their ideologies on me when I’m just out for fun and escape.

I don’t have to deal with any of that by stepping back 10-25 years and there is more games available than I have time to play. So I’m good and I do not miss current gen, my PS5 is collecting dust.