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Secret of Mana promotional art (~1993) [REPOST]
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Video games are not mere time killers. They are albums of sound, aesthetics, animation and narrative.
This community is in appreciation of that. Screenshots, fanart, animations, gameplay clips. It is all welcome here.
The one common thread should be an eye for the aesthetic. This is not a place to discuss mechanics or stats, but to show off simply the artistic, expressed through the video game medium.
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I get you, friend. Life gets in the way sometimes.
That said, it's not the 90s anymore and advances in emulation make big games really accessible now. My other half picked up an Anbernic console and it's amazing to play old games with the QoL improvements - the key one being save states.
There's also the option to emulate on a phone but personally I think the lack of physical buttons really hurts the experience - that's a preference thing not a hard and fast rule.
Have a think about it - I used to dismiss big games out of hand based on the time factor, but now I'm finding half an hour here or two twenty minutes sessions an afternoon breaks up the day or a journey.
Just a thought.
Oh I know about all the options. All I'm saying is when I was a kid I didn't get the chance to play it and it airways intrigued me. Didn't have enough money to buy it and it was never available at the rental store.
Now that I'm a grown ass adult, I cab barely find time to play. Plus with my money I got myself a long ass list of games that I don't even know when I'm going ô start.
I manage to get an hour in with the phone plus a controller with a phone holder attached (8bitdo in my case). It's easy enough to sleep it when needed but you need to be careful it doesn't auto close. Still an attachment, but one I have by my bedside.
Absolutely better than doomscrolling (which I obviously am doing atm, but I'm in-between retro games lol)