Tabitha ☢️[she/her]

anyone with the skill set to build that and access to the supply chain and fabs required to build it isn’t going to risk getting sued for that.

but you can buy retro style devices that can emulate most consoles older than 20 years, they’re pretty common. some even go as far as literal cartridge compatibility.

I do have that childhood nostalgia for cartridges, but that aside the modern joy of physical media is usually something like works offline, works 20 years from now, can’t be remotely disabled. But I’ve found that once you’re paying $599 for a brick with a 5 year expiration time bomb built-in, $70 per game, 20GB downloads before you can start playing, the dark patterns don’t end there, and the whole ecosystem just isn’t worth all the hassle.

TBF almost all the games worth playing before 2016 probably run fine on at least one of: your phone or your linux PC.

Valve seems significantly closer to a reasonable compromise between our ideology and the opposing ideology, especially compared to Sony and Microsoft.