Keep those eyes out for working CRTs in thrift stores and garage sales. Or, I guess, estate sales? Or idk, whatever it’s called when they give dead old people stuff away. It’s a dying breed.

Point is, you need a curved screen and crazy strong scan lines. 4:3 ratio or bust.

Peak SC.

That said, I wait for retroachevements before I dive back into my gcn collection.

Obligatory: https://youtu.be/4h8N1dr0D0Q

You were ahead of your time on environmental action, haha. I bet making a 15 minute city in Sim City is frowned upon, too.

If anything it’s mostly cause I played Sim City as a little kid and I played it terribly. They most assuredly would have done better.

(In the OG you could literally be like “surprise, 20% taxes!”)

Guy gets back to his old Sim City save only to find that, without a government randomly raising taxes on it’s citizens, the city thrived. The moment he tries to raise taxes up from zero, he is assassinated and the game shuts off, refusing to open again.

The only worthy successor for me has been the steam deck (maybe if I ever jailbroke my switch, but even then). Just wish we had the deck version with a PSP form factor, that would possibly be the best handheld system for emulation and PC gaming you could ask for.

I think you could recreate that experience a bit of you go after the retroachevments for the game (e.g. fan made achievements enforced via emulator). I think they require you beat the game 5 times, one for each character and once with a split group. Also, no damage runs and such. Difficult stuff.

To be fair, those might be the best low quality commercials out there. Also great, now the operatic version is stuck on my head.

Nah, dangerous hobbies don’t sound fun. But, with other trek tech, I’d definitely pick up new hobbies. Like solving a mystery in the holodeck. ;)

I only played the first one, very solid game. You actually remind me I should get back to that… I wonder if it has retroachevments?