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This reminds me that we still don't have both versions of Marble Madness 2, even though both versions not only exist but are playable in somebody's collection.

When I play VR I play in front of a industrial fan for games outdoors or like in cockpits. A smell option would be interesting addition to the immersion.

It's the internet, you can say shit and fuck.

Find some people with Fart kink..

don't get me started on that guy

I feel your pain. Every time I see people describe a “VHS rip” I curl my toes.

Mr. wonderful is responsible for killing these off

You like make stink

Hope he stays off of social media. It's bad for him

Has it been stagnant?? I feel like I see Apple watches all over the place.

WHO FARTED!

I bid $50!

Great! Now i can't even fart during gaming sessions

They should boot it up on a live stream.

There’s a lot of VR mindfulness apps that could benefit from giving you the extra sensation of the smell of a beach on top of the sights and sounds, I think, alongside other environments like forest. All in all it seems pretty niche especially since you’d have to refill the thing and malicious people could make you smell shit

E: Smelling shit and other vile smells might be a selling point for horror games as well

I wonder if there is any research done to see how much demand there is for new technologies. Like touchscreen PCs and autonomous cars. Very few people seem to want them but companies spend a lot of money developing them anyway.

What weird phrasing 'more than half a decade'. People don't even know what they want any more, they just want the next new thing now, not tomorrow.

Rather get me a touch sensations, and I’ll buy one.

Of all the senses I could experience in a VR environment, smell would be my last choice.

South park did this!

I bet these are fire

Do you consider it theft to play a game they stopped selling 30 years ago?

Clearly the game companies themselves don't, or they would do something about it. Emulation sites pretty much instantly get shut down when they start hosting modern games, but some of them have been running for decades and are not secret in the slightest.

You'll also notice even sites that are for the purposes of "preserving the classics," as it were, don't host anything that's not at least 2 console generations old.

Preservationists also don't need to worry about emulating Xbox really at all, because Microsoft themselves are doing a great job of cross releasing everything onto PC, where they're playable forever, or just making sure every new gen is fully backwards compatible.

If companies like Nintendo preserved their own fucking games like Microsoft does, we wouldn't have to.

hard pass

A lot of the buyers in any collectable market are just people who think scarcity and value are the same thing. They tend to buy scarce stuff to hopefully have it accrue value over time.

The problem in this case is that two unreleased games are only scarce specifically, not generally. It would be one thing if one of these was a 90% finished prototype of a Metroid sequel that never existed, but there are a lot of unreleased games out there that were never released because people do not want them.