Why Is It So Hard To Play Old Games?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Kirk Hamilton, Society & Culture, Technology, Arts, Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Video Games

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Maddy, Jason, and Kirk take a trip down memory lane, crossing nostalgia with frustration as they try to figure out why so many old games are so hard to play (legally). What do you do with your old consoles? Why do Nintendo and Sony make it so difficult to buy their old games? What's the deal with video game preservation??? Plus: Kirk got a PS5!

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0:00.0	Some video games really do age like fine wine.
0:07.0	You just have to bury them in your cellar and then never, ever play them.
0:13.0	Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.
0:15.0	This week on the show, we're talking about retro games and game preservation,
0:18.0	mostly because it's been so difficult for us to access the best versions of Final Fantasy VI.
0:22.0	So it does stop your old controllers and fire up your emulators.
0:25.0	Let's do it.
0:30.0	I'm Kirk Hamilton.
0:31.0	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:32.0	And I'm Jason Shryer, and we are back.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:35.0	Hello.
0:36.0	We sure are.
0:37.0	We share our back for another episode of Triple Click, the video game podcast.
0:42.0	And you know what?
0:43.0	Triple Click is a listener-supported podcast.
0:46.0	Like so many podcasts these days, I know.
0:49.0	We're just conformists.
0:50.0	We're trying to be like everybody else.
0:52.0	And one of the ways that we do that is that we talk about video games,
0:55.0	whichever one's talking about these days.
0:57.0	And another way we do that is that we are a totally listener-supported.
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