As someone who had the 64,128, zx spectrum and Amiga I’m not really looking into a time wrap regarding technology.
If I should go back in time it should be for real
Whaaaa.....???? What's the use then. Just playing the builtin games only?
Another overpriced ARM board with an emulator pre-installed.
I grew up in the 1980s too, but (thankfully) without computers. So I have a pretty non-rose-tinted view of the early 8 bit home computer age. It took until the mid 1990s before I got to compare the golden age (where almost all currently know genres and gameplay concepts were defined) with the 8 bit infancy era, where everyone was trying to copy arcades, struggling with severe hardware limitations and user interfaces. There were a few rare gems released for 8 bit platforms first, but most them were ported or remade for better computers later - these are not going to appear in emulator cash-grabs.
I did try it (Aliens vs Predator was actually really fun) but it was way too expensive when it was released and the controller was just too huge. Games were sparse as well. Not surprising it was Ataris last console.And the 1:1 version will be a fully functioning?
Yup. I was just about to go fetch my SNES Classic Mini that's just arrived at a local post office when I saw that a C64 mini is in the making.
Having played many C64 games in my early youth, I can't say I recognise many of the included games in the mini version.
https://thec64.com/
From the website:
"PLUS – Full sized, fully working version also coming in 2018 as well!"
One area i think they could have a worth (old 8 bit computers) is with young children. Sure you can offer your kids Minecraft (on PC), Zelda/Mario (on Nintendo), but it is a very real parenting problem to not have your kids play maybe unsuitable stuff too young (maybe their friends has CoD at home etc).
I had been keeping my old Atari 800XL for my kids, but sadly time worked against it and last time i booted it up the 5.25 Floppy Drive was not working properly. Damn shame as i had a massive collection of games for it, all mostly suitable for young minds too
I do however have some old consoles and child-friendly games for them, and these 'mini' reboots could fill those kind of gaps if they had the right games (which most seem not to sadly).
So 'Emulation' it is going to have to be, where my old games and hardware no longer function well.
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