| IcaroRibeiro said: I only have cousins (who treats me as uncle because kf the age gap, I'm ~20 years older than some of them). What you say about physicals is true that's why they starting reading my physical manga collections as well as my books, and also played my 3DS (I generally donate my older consoles to them) However one of them broke my 3DS and can no longer play the games, neither can I. My games are gone. So what he can do? Well, nothing really. But emulation can make them play the same games in future There are many games from the 80s and 90s that I never played except by digital means, either by emulation of by buying digital versions on later consoles. This discussion remember me when I wanted to read The Wheel of Time around ~12 years ago and couldn't find any physical copy in my language on bookstores (it's a serie that went out of print many years agora and you vould only find books 1 and 2 and barely). That led me to holding of and stopping in the second book for almost a decade until the series got a TV show and made me remember that I never really read it trough it. I bought it digitally for my Kindle and boom, problem solved. I believe you can find up to the book 8 in portuguese now physically thanks to the TV show, but before it? Forget it. That's how can physical can lead it |
You can buy a new 3DS, second hand, refurbushed, renewed, they are not rare.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nintendo+3ds&ref=nb_sb_noss
Did he break the cartridges as well? They should still work.
Actually I didn't play the Intellivision until my wife brought one home 8 years ago. A box for $5 with the system, dozens of games and 2 speech modules. All I had to do is splice a coax cable to get it working on an old CRT tv (yet still too new for it to work without splicing my own cable), magic happened. The 80's as they were in the 80's :)
Btw The Wheel of time wasn't finished until 10 years ago, last part came out in 2013. I read them all in paperback. I bought em of Amazon but of course in English. No clue why it went out of print in your language. Anyway for preservation, the English version is the original ;)
https://wot.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time_translations
Digital copies are fine for nostalgia. For me at least. I've downloaded abandonware before, play it for 5 minutes, then abandoned it again. Just not the same. Maybe retro PCs will be a thing some time. I'm bummed I got rid of my old CRT monitors, bad mistake.
