They're like flare jeans! This article is a pretty good guide to finding ways to get into retro/old school gaming without having to shell out for an old school system. But the option is there as well. Some would say games were better when they were simpler, this is a good way to see if you think so as well. What's old certainly is what's new again. There's been a huge resurgence of retro gaming as of late.
The game looks too clean without it.
If you're replaying MGS1 in any of its available forms, you'll want to know how to unlock all the best items in the game!
Like the shows that inspired it, the virtual pinball tables in "Universal Pinball: TV Classics Pack" for "Pinball FX" — "Xena: Warrior Princess," "Knight Rider," and "Battlestar Galactica" — are a lot of fun.
One word - emulation!
I play all old systems on my PC and have an archive of every single game for every single system - even machine I never heard of at the time.
If you'r not completely mad for it - just grab MAME and you can play the real arcade roms from your fave machines of the past - many thousands of titles for that one emulator alone.
Seems like an interesting concept is the hardware works as advertised. I'm not a huge fan of emulators. Maybe because I already hate playing games on the PC but I feel more comfortable with a good old controller and a TV set across the room.
I just bought a NES from eBay the other day, waiting for it to be delivered.