New VC Games For 2/19/2007

Altor · February 20, 2007, 06:42:09 PM

Quote from: "sWampy"It amazes me people pay $5-$10 for 10+ year old games they can play for free on so many other platforms.

I buy music even though I can get it for free. It's part of growing up. It's the mature thing to do, since you know that if nobody bought, there'd be nothing for you anymore. Things have value and it's only decent to pay for things you enjoy. You'll start to understand when you finish grade 4 or so.

popinadam · February 20, 2007, 06:49:43 PM

Quote from: "Altor"
Quote from: "sWampy"It amazes me people pay $5-$10 for 10+ year old games they can play for free on so many other platforms.
I buy music even though I can get it for free. It's part of growing up. It's the mature thing to do, since you know that if nobody bought, there'd be nothing for you anymore. Things have value and it's only decent to pay for things you enjoy. You'll start to understand when you finish grade 4 or so.

Ah men

We can download movies, music, games, applications and more but some of us still put out the cash to actually own rights to it.

Plus if no one decided to pay for it it wouldn't exist in the first place.

Koji · February 20, 2007, 09:07:37 PM

It's mostly children that don't realize that sometimes paying for things is worth it, even if you can get it for free. A lot of us "older" users grew up on these games. The nostalgia is great, and we truly enjoy them. A lot of us DID get them from downloads for free at some point because there was no other choice aside from dishing out money for a poorly kept copy that someone put on ebay. Now we have a legal way to get them AND we can play them as they originally were meant to be played on TVs. It's a good deal, beats the $60-70 I dished out for a lot of SNES games originally.

sWampy · February 21, 2007, 09:23:31 AM

Well to me only an idiot would pay $10 for a virtual copy of a game that the original can be easily had for a $1, and the console can be had for $10. In the last 6 months, I picked up a snes with 55 carts for $75 at a local flea market, and a genesis with 35 games for $25. At $2 a game, I'd buy dozens of them, at $8-$10, I'll buy zero, and 3/4ths of the people I know with wii's feel the same.

Koji · February 21, 2007, 08:24:16 PM

There is also the issue of space constraints. I still have my beloved 1st series SNES which is my baby, I still take it out hook it up from time to time... But the aesthetics of the console have not aged well with time. It's hard to pull off the modern home look with a SNES next to the TV.

NT · February 22, 2007, 02:26:01 PM

Quote from: "Koji"There is also the issue of space constraints. I still have my beloved 1st series SNES which is my baby, I still take it out hook it up from time to time... But the aesthetics of the console have not aged well with time. It's hard to pull off the modern home look with a SNES next to the TV.

My 15-year old SNES has a bad case of jaundice.

sneef · February 22, 2007, 03:39:21 PM

me too! haha.. good thing the genesis was black (in my case, megadrive)

Gleasonator · February 22, 2007, 06:39:51 PM

Quote from: "popinadam"
Quote from: "Altor"
Quote from: "sWampy"It amazes me people pay $5-$10 for 10+ year old games they can play for free on so many other platforms.
I buy music even though I can get it for free. It's part of growing up. It's the mature thing to do, since you know that if nobody bought, there'd be nothing for you anymore. Things have value and it's only decent to pay for things you enjoy. You'll start to understand when you finish grade 4 or so.

Ah men

We can download movies, music, games, applications and more but some of us still put out the cash to actually own rights to it.

Plus if no one decided to pay for it it wouldn't exist in the first place.

Honestly I like emulation because it takes up WAY less space, the games can't break, and it's more organized. I'd most likely pay Nintendo for downloads (for the computer. VC is different because you can't manipulate them)... but alas none shall come.

Let's just say that if Nintendo had a "Pirates, donate money here." button, I'd do it. But along with the emulation it's hard not to download games you don't own. I have... *checks ROMs folder* 84.6 GB of pirated stuff, and 20,736 files (meaning ROMs and ISOs). I still try to support Nintendo, though. I'm sure not to buy 3rd party stuff, I always buy the new systems, and a bunch of games at launch.