The Shrine

Phantasy Star 1 is a steal at that price, IMO

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_ ... top;more;5

I got that game...for $0 dollars. I still don't understand why any of you buy stuff you can get for free (especially since 99% of these games don't age well and are nowhere near as fun as you remember).

Actually this does confuse me, Zeus you piratey pirate you, you can download all of these games on an emulator and have fun that way, why buy them?

Better controls?

I've found that an emulator is generally far superior as a platform compared to any console emulating one, since you can speed it up and load/save at will. For example there's a military simulation game I play on Sega Genesis. The AI takes about 20 minutes to an hour for one of its turn. On any system that pretends to act like a normal Genesis you basically go eat dinner or something after you're done with your turn, and you go cry in a corner if you realize you made a crucial mistake and now have to load your game again. On an emulator you just set frame skip to the highest setting and the AI's turn will be done in a few minutes.

Eric wrote:Actually this does confuse me, Zeus you piratey pirate you, you can download all of these games on an emulator and have fun that way, why buy them?

I have multiple copies of the game on a couple different platforms. It's not for me, it's for the people who might not have played it. For $4, it's almost negligible.

As I've mentioned before, I ain't huge on the digital distribution stuff anyways but I know most people don't care for the right price. I think there are some Master System games, like Phantasy Star or Zillion, that are worth $4 to play since they're good and you're gonna get more than a few hours out of them.

And I don't really pirate games, I collect them. The only ones I have which I have pirated are the Japanese releases we don't get (like the Mother 3 I have waiting for a translation). Nothing to do with principle or anything, collecting games is just my hobby.

Same with DVDs. Just movies and TV shows that I don't deem worthly of my money I pirate.