Super Console X Review

Like it or not, our consoles aren't getting any younger, especially if they're 20 or so years old. Spare parts become harder to find. This is one way of preserving your old games.

I understand, dschult3 , I'd like to see people get paid for their hard work, but what if the games no longer make them money? Plus, I don't have to worry about whether my newest Mega Drive game is suffering bit rot or not.

Also, the minimalist in me wants something like this. My Mega Drive HD is just collecting dust. If I modded a PSP, I could've save myself some money and even space. And you're right, stratogustav , you could just use a computer and hook it u to your TV.

I would say when it comes to consoles, the console exclusives are the ones worth it because they were intended for that particular hardware in the first place, and luckily they tend to be the most abundant.

However, from the Atari 2600, all the way to the Saturn, and PS1, a big number of games were designed for the arcades first, and then ported to consoles, it was only when the Dreamcast arrived that we can say that they were on an even level.

In those cases, the arcade versions are often the ones worth playing. Sometimes the downgraded versions do have something different to offer, and I understand that has some value, but ultimately it is the arcade version of a game the one that has more to offer.

So if someone is missing from their collection a very expensive port I would suggest not to worry so much about it because that person is better off playing the arcade version elsewhere.

And when you see the arcade versions of those games, they weren't cassettes, tapes, cartridges, or discs, they were single motherboards, just like your raspberry pi, so you really aren't getting that much of a different experience there.

When it comes to console exclusives though, even little things like the original controller makes a huge difference, just the way buttons are placed, and the overall feel of the controller on your hand can completely change that experience, and that's why I like the Minis so much.

PCs do offer some knock off controllers that are very close to that experience as well, and the closer you get to the original experience, the better, which is why the original console, with the original cartridge, with the original controller, on a CRT, will always win, and that's why people pay so much for that.

So it becomes a matter of how much you like that experience because usually some good approximation to that kind of experience is enough for many people, but it may not be enough for others.

AI knows what you are after, so they link you to those ads based on what conversations you have at home. The other day we were talking about Space Jam with my buddy and he doesn't follow sports, but he opened YouTube and they were already suggesting him NBA finals stuff. It's pretty wild how AI can hear you talk.

It has been like that for while. I remember having another conversation a while back of how Michael Jackson became white, and when I got home the first suggestion was a video on how Michael Jackson became white. These things have ears all over the place, so they will send you knock off console ads just for talking about it, not to mention actively looking for it on a website.

In a way this has helped make prices go overboard because people can mess with these algorithm and purposely rise the prices of anything. Something absurd like this:

Didn't I tell you to get rid of that thing Strato?