[HN Gopher] Evolving a Curated Retro Game Collection ___________________________________________________________________ Evolving a Curated Retro Game Collection Author : ecliptik Score : 28 points Date : 2021-01-19 19:30 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.racketboy.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.racketboy.com) | 52-6F-62 wrote: | This guy could operate a museum. Maybe "should" is better. | | I remember even ten years ago, "barcades" would have things like | an N64 setup with Mario Kart be the most popular thing in there. | | These days retro-gaming/computing seems more popular than ever, | to the point where it has adopted that title as short hand. | | I play very casually at best (I've got 20x more poetry books than | video games), but this is great. I'd love to see more of this. | linuxftw wrote: | Gaming used to be a social and causal thing. The polar opposite | of mainstream gaming today. | | Before the lockdowns, playing modern board games at local | breweries was fast becoming a thing. I highly recommend it. | viraptor wrote: | The availability made many people realise that boardgames are | not all chess or all monopoly or all ... There's so much | variety that almost everyone will enjoy something. | 52-6F-62 wrote: | My partner was head of operations for a small chain of board | game cafes(/bars) in Toronto (Snakes and Lattes*). We have a | few kicking around, but I just can't get quite as into it. | Once in a while, though. | | edit: Forgot they're in Arizona and Chicago, too. They | started with one location on Bloor in Toronto and grew | quickly. There's definitely a market for it. | silicon2401 wrote: | Excellent read. Curation is a concept that I've grown fond of in | recent years. Does anybody know of books that touch on the topic? | Whether it's archival, organization, displaying, theming, etc. I | love that good curation not only allows you to appreciate a | collection, but lets you appreciate it even more deeply the more | you appreciate the art of curation itself. | inoop wrote: | If you're into this sort of stuff but don't want to | buy/repair/store all the console hardware, take a look at | [MiSTer](https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-19 23:01 UTC)