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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.
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.
This is why I started hiking and summiting mountains. I mean, not literally why, but it’s chasing that new and novel high.
This has been language learning for me. Learning new words and expressions every day gives me that high. Stumbling through a conversation in a language I'm uncomfortable with is so scary and daunting, but when you actually have a meaningful conversation where both parties get something out of it, it's an incredible feeling.