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title = "Retro games are PC games for me"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-09-06T21:38:00+02:00
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
weight = 2007
image_dir = "blog/images"
image_max_width = 600
abstract = "Tomb Raider is a PC game"
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Like with everything recently, I tend not to be interested at all in new games and rely on so-called "retro" gaming (I'm almost 40. I wonder if that's related).
Not that I play them, but there are other ways to relive them.
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However, once I went that rabbit hole, I found that my experience was much different than of many other folks.
I never owned a console.
I never owned an Amiga, or Commodore.
All I experienced were outdated PCs.
Now, I use a PSX4, but it doesn't count as I can't be nostalgic for something that happened 4 years ago.
This also means I have no memory of the PSX, SNES or the Game Boy.
When English speaking vloggers discuss games I remember as PC games, they refer to them as console games.
Gex? It was a PC game that came with Microsoft Sidewinder.
Resident Evil? PC, of course.
Mortal Kombat? A PC game!
Earthworm Jim? You guessed it - a PC game.
GTA? Just as PC as Microsoft Excel.
Tomb Raider? To no surprise - a PC game.
I won't even mention games, which were _designed_ for PC, other than Grim Fandango or Diablo.
Every time I hear someone refer to such titles as "PSX" or "Sega", I feel disjointed.
But we are both right in our memories!
Yes, there were exclusives and Nintendo is hateful towards other platforms as ever (Chrono Trigger? That's Snes9X game!).
But it most cases we played the same games, but the memory of that experienced differ.
I never sat in front of the TV to control Lara, I did on my desk in the lowest resolution out there.
This makes it hard for me to emphasize with [Joel](https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/august-2024-summary/).
He bought a retro emulator in a for of a handheld to relive games of his youth.
For me, a complete QWERTY keyboard would be needed.
Even if we played the same games, we did in a different way.
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