[HN Gopher] Evolving a Curated Retro Game Collection
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       Evolving a Curated Retro Game Collection
        
       Author : ecliptik
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2021-01-19 19:30 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | 52-6F-62 wrote:
       | This guy could operate a museum. Maybe "should" is better.
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       | I remember even ten years ago, "barcades" would have things like
       | an N64 setup with Mario Kart be the most popular thing in there.
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       | These days retro-gaming/computing seems more popular than ever,
       | to the point where it has adopted that title as short hand.
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       | 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.
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           | 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).
        
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