Now, I like old games as much as anyone – hell, MAME is my most run application on my laptop, and I still rate Chuckie Egg as the best game ever – but damn if this isn’t the most retarded idea since, well, Sony last had an idea.
“Emulators are great, but you just can’t beat the feel of a real machine.”
Yeah, I really miss having to sit and wait half an hour for a game to load from tape, only to have it screw up 2 blocks from the end and have to do it all over again. That was so much better than just being able to pick the game from a collection on my hard disc, double click and play.
I never understood why fast forwarding the tape didn’t make it load quicker, and to be honest I still don’t.
Does this also mean fiddling with the volume control until the loader finally accepts the data from the cassette? Not really my idea of retro-gaming fun to be honest…