Meet the Gamers Keeping Retro Consoles Alive

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You see those stories popping up every now and then — new Dreamcast game released, first SNES game in 15 years etc — but an in-depth feature published today takes a look at the teams behind the retro revival (http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Article/Time-Team--Meet-the-Gamers-Keeping-Retro-Consoles-021243330672345), and looks at why they do what they do. Surprisingly, there seems to be a viable audience for new releases — one developer says his games sell better on Dreamcast than they do on Nintendo Wii. Even if the buyers vanished, the retro games would still keep coming though: 'I wager I'd have to be dead, or suffering from a severe case of amnesia, to ever give this up completely,' says one developer."Update: 03/23 18:28 GMT by T (http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/) : If you want to play original classic games on new hardware, instead of the other way around, check out Hyperkin's RetroN 3 (http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/retron-5-plays-cartridges-from-five-classic-consoles/), which can play cartridges from 5 classic consoles.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/03/23/1529209/meet-the-gamers-keeping-retro-consoles-alive