Chrono Cross Is Making It Real Hard To Not Just Emulate Old Games

thegamer.com:

Let’s just get this out of the way: I like buying video games. A lot. It’s probably my favorite activity that’s not your mom. I happily buy the $80 bullshit Deluxe Edition of new games. I spend hours sifting through Steam sales and Nintendo eShop deals for weirdo games that cost a dollar. I’ve also worked for video game companies that make and sell video games, so the purchasing of said video games has put food on my table.

Hell, I even got flack for saying that people shouldn’t emulate the new Metroid game until it had, I dunno, been out longer than three days. Why? Because even when games are released by a major corporation they’re actually made by human beings whose livelihoods often rely on the success of the previous project they worked on. And because I want more Metroid games, you fucking monsters.

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On the other hand, I don’t mind emulating old games. I’ve done it for literal decades. My first playthrough of Final Fantasy 5 was an incomplete fan translation because it hadn’t been released in the West yet. I have a keychain device that can play the full version of Doom. But these are all games I literally couldn’t buy (FF5, at the time) or had bought eight thousand fucking times in my life (Doom).

And, honestly, I don’t mind buying classic games time after time. Like I said, I’m the video game industry’s best stupid fucking mark. I’m an adult with no responsibilities living a life that my childhood self would call ‘the dream’ and my adult self often calls ‘a waking nightmare of loneliness and isolation.’ I’m extremely lucky in that regard and I respect that not everyone can afford to buy Final Fantasy 7 every time a Square Enix executive needs a