well can't see it happening anytime soon.
Given how many games and consoles I've never played. And how good emulators have got, and tha fact that the roms are free and easy to find - I've got some years of games ahead of me
The first one I found - and the one that started me down this slippery slope was a game I rememberplaying in the arcade in stoke when I was at college.
My mate and I probably spent more time in that video game arcade than we did at college !
This was a LOOONG time ago - games were still 10p a play (approx 20 cents).
One of my favourites was a game - that for over 20 years - I thought was called nuclear runner.
And when MAME became a 'thing' - I could never find it.
Then a few months ago I discovered it was actually called Ato,ic runner !
And not only was it easy to find, but an improved version was also released on the megadrive /genesis. An emulator for which I could install on my smart phone !
So I did and I can now play Atmic runner on my phone
It's kind of snowballed from there.
And also because there are currently NO decent 3d beat-em-ups on the switch.
Well there's mortal kombat - and i did buy it and it is rubbish
I'm a tekken fan. No tekken on the switch.
But tekken 5 on the psp - is awesome when played on my computer - the graphics scale up and look amazing on a pc monitor.
LIkewise soul caliber is great on the dreamcast - as is DOA2.
I'm currently downloading retroarch. A multi console emulator base.
And all because there was a game 20 years ago called MDK - absolutely awesome game.
It came out on dos.
It's free - but running anything on dos on either my phone or pc is a real PITA.
I have a virtual machine installed running windows xp - 'cause my favourite single page dtp package won't run o windows 10. But installing som,ething similiar for dos is too compliated to setup for me to be bothered with.
I discovered (in the last hour) that mdk also came out on the playstation !
So playstation emulator it is
I'm, also seriously considering upgrading my processor to the ryzen 5 3400g - which currently has the world's best integrated graphics - actually good enough to run a switch emulator !
I can't afford it - I still don't have a car lol.
And I don't need it - it won't significantly speed up rendering on Openscad - the main reason I upgraded my work pc in the first place.
But I'm pretty sure I'm going to do it anyway.
Here's the thing.
A ryzen 5 3400g gives me a 4 core 8 thread cpu, that all by itself blows most i7's out the park. But coupled with the onboard vega 11 rx gpu
(you need to spend £150 on a graphics card to get something equivalent) and for £140 - the value for money is just ridiculous.
There's a reason I stopped playing games on a pc 20 odd years ago lol