I collect video arcade games and I’m an electronics engineer by trade, and for me the challenge of repairing and keeping obsolete electronics working like new is a lot of the fun. I don’t collect the machines just for the games, but also out of appreciation for what their designers were able to do with the limited technology of the time, and for the cabinet artwork and design too. Different architectures and models have their own idiosyncrasies that are lost when they’re emulated, so it’s always a little sad to see old cabinets that have been gutted and stuffed with a PC running MAME, though I realize that for most people the important thing is just being able to play without any care about how it works under the hood.
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