* you like pixel art
* you like chip tunes
* you have interest in the history of the medium
* you're sick of modern games for a little bit, with complicated pre-order schemes, microtransactions, and State Farm Insurance sponsorships
* you have a computer that's also a potato
* you appreciate that time has faded out a lot of the less-notable games
* you like game design trends that are not profitable in the current game market
* you know that good design is not a matter of technological obsolesce

@KommaChameleon because new technology doesn’t necessarily make games broadly and inherently better as games and there’s huge swaths of perfectly fine and well crafted games from the past 30+ years?

@KommaChameleon yes, it's not as if people may enjoy a game on its own terms or anything 🙃

I mean shit, I enjoyed Earthbound but that game also didn't even get released in my part of the world at all until 2013, and I hadn't personally heard of it either until like two years before that; to say that's nostalgia would be a stretch and a half