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The Video Game Industry's Fascination With Slot Machines

Atari and Nintendo started selling their first home video game consoles in the late 70s, and just in the span of a couple of years, the newfound industry saw a great rise in commercially distributed video game products. The Atari 2600 was especially responsible for popularizing games stored on swappable ROM cartridges.While Nintendo’s first home console was released in 1977, the company’s first major gaming console, the NES didn’t come out until 1983. Nintendo Entertainment System today is tied to every retro gamer’s nostalgia, it is also the console that introduced the gaming world to many.This era steered away people from arcade games

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The Pros and Cons of Emulating Illegally Acquired ROMs

We've probably all revisited an old game from our past at one point or another, to reminisce to simpler times, indulge feelings of nostalgia or to share a game that means something to us with our children or loved ones. Remasters are popular for the very same reason, they give us reasons to go back a relive an experience that once gave us joy.We all have different tastes and experiences and because of that, have played different games over our years - some of these could have been rare or abandoned titles that have no accessible presence in the modern world.