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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (12 children)

As Yahtzee has suggested, people aren't nostalgic for old games, but for how they felt playing old games. Much harder to capture that, and beautiful pixel art alone isn't enough.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Because as a child, everything is novel and new for you so you get that sense of high and awe seeing something new. But now as adults, recreating that feeling is almost impossible because you have already experienced it before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is why I started hiking and summiting mountains. I mean, not literally why, but it’s chasing that new and novel high.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You're also literally chasing new highs though. Sounds like the whole package..

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