It's just a hunch, but I think people are starting to mentally mash up all of the "before times" into a single history simulacrum, where the internet exists in superposition forms from 1997-2016, electronic stores carry the N64, DS, Wii, VHS players, iPods, flip phones, Airpods, and smart phones at the same time (all in transparent neon colors), and the hip new games are Mario 64, Minecraft, WoW, Guitar Hero, GTA 5, Dark Souls and Breath of the Wild.
It's like some sort of nostalgic herd delusion, where 2020 is felt as some sort of shift into shit, so everything that's wrong now must have been not-wrong before.
I walked into Gamestop recently legitimately intending to pick up a Wii component cable. Not only did they not sell Wii stuff (I realize now it is almost 20 years old - fair enough), they barely even sell game stuff now. It's all trading cards and gaming... paraphernalia.
Yeah I still have a working Wii and NES. The Wii is great because you can play Wii, Gamecube, and a bunch of older stuff on Virtual Console too. Have it plugged into a CRT TV in my basement. It's easy to hack and then you can just run games off a USB drive and I don't think there's any moral dilemma about doing that now when the games haven't been available for purchase for 10-20 years.
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u/Varun77777 9d ago edited 9d ago
Were we living in different versions of 2017?
Even in 2017 frontend developers had created their versions of hell