Like me, he grew up in a time when video games were intimately tied to a physical device. For years our favourite games were inaccessible because they were non-interoperable: the cartridges didn’t work on other devices, and old computer games wouldn’t run on newer operating systems. “And then a couple of people found it and put it back together.”Reconnecting with your past selfBowman’s research shows how powerful the nostalgia from playing old video games can be. “I wanted to play the games, and being a developer I had the tools and skills ... “Hardware comparability is a huge issue with these old games,” Praveen says.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2021 15:25 UTC