I love retro games, especially SNES/NES/N64 and GB games.
Modern games, except for some titles, do not fascinate me at all anymore.
This lead to being able to run machines that are in the "older" realm. Not having a dedicated graphics card can be a blessing for sure. Energy costs drastically go down and one can run quiet systems.
Besides, playing retro games is not taxing at all to the system - any system will do fine.
I miss the great stories older games told... nostalgia hits again.
@jhx What hardware are you running them on? I had a raspberry pi model b running a spectrum emulator and it was pretty good but much faster on a pi3 or pi4 with retropi.
I try to avoid windows systems underneath the emulator.
@gregsie
Currently running a Dell Optiplex 7060 micro - overkill for those old games 🙂
Well, it is my daily driver after all.
Using Mednafen and Mupen for the most part.
@gregsie
In general:
Debian 12
OptiPlex 7060
Mednafen (NES/SNES/GB) and Mupen64 (N64)
Also: Using a USB SNES/NES controller (Don't like playing with the keyboard - pretty cheap these controllers on Amazon or eBay for example)
@jhx Some of my favourite retro-games have been re-implemented, like OpenTTD, Theme Hospital, etc.
But I'd also say Theme Park, The Sims and let's not forget Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Maniac Mansion, etc.
Yes, too many of them!
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