Gizmodo had a post about the old Super NES console from way back beating the PlayStation 3 on Amazon. I thought this was a hoot, Sony must be pissed that the Wii is the must have console right now, imagine how playing second fiddle to a 4th generation (the PS3 is 7th generation) console from 17 years ago! I clicked through the search link to Amazon and the SNES is gone, but the PS3 is (as of right now) #22, behind the Wii at #8, silver PS2 at #15, and the XBox 360 at #17. Both the Wii and the PS3 are priced about $150 above their MSPRs-Ouch! That SNES is looking better all the time!When I was growing up we had the original NES, before that a Colecovision and our first console, the Magnavox Odyssey 2! That console was retro gaming when it first came out. I wasn't a huge gamer at the time, I think the only game I ever played to the end and beat was Castlevania. I remember that it was a lot of late-night playing. The hours seemed to go by at twice the normal rate. The NES console disappeared (probably got put in the closet) and I didn't play any games till I got a copy of Mechwarrior 2 with a computer I bought when my brother moved out. That was fun, but again, the time flew by and by this time I had a real job that I had to get up and go to in the mornings, which made playing 'til 2am a real drag.
Fast forward to present day. Hey, these old NES (and SNES and Nintendo 64) games, though hopelessly outdated, are still fun! They don't render in HD, but who cares, it'll probably be another 10 years before I have an HDTV anyway. The emulator community is thriving, despite it's questionable legality. I'm sure the game company's lawyers wouldn't say there is no question. I think the game companies should sell ROMs online so people could play (legally) on their computers, I'd buy 'em. Hell, they should give them away, Ninetendo's mindshare with the general public would go up like it was 1989 all over again! Nintendo does sell the old games as downloads for the Wii system, but the barrier to entry is a little high ($400 right now). Guess I'll hang on to my money: if past history repeats, my recent gaming renaissance will peter out before long.
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