If your TV has only HDMI connections, you’ll need to get hold of an RF or scart converter, while retro gaming hardware also tends to involve trailing cables across your living room – wireless console controllers became the default option only with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Sega Megadrive has depreciated faster, so if you’re after a sniff of Sonic the Hedgehog as it was meant to be played, you might need only £30 for an original 16-bit console.īuying consoles from eBay isn’t terribly convenient, however. Demand has kept prices pretty buoyant, however: you’ll pay in the region of £60 for a Commodore 64 with a handful of games, and around the same for a Super Nintendo. Jump onto eBay and you can often find the original hardware. Setting up an emulator isn’t the only way to play old gaming classics. How to play old games on your PC, smartphone and tablet: Getting classics the easy way For those for whom console gaming will forever be the poor cousin of PC gaming, we’ll also explore the various ways you can revisit classics from the days of the DOS prompt.
Here’s how to find and run retro games, and prove that the old days really were the best.
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