Luigi whatever, as far as games are concerned, can't recall the exact name. That was awesome graphics, but when graphical designers knew how to draw.
Otherwise I like interacting with venerable hardware that wasn't mine, especially formerly high-end models, so for example I'm more inclined to buy an old but powerful and majestic GFX card second-hand than get a modern mid-shelf product NIB.
I often sink into nostalgia these days because the world just isn't my kind of place any more. Once upon a time, being a translator by trade, I got to translate Eric Zimmerman's Manifesto of a Ludic Century, and I focused not on the ludic aspects of it but more the game-theory stuff. My conclusion is that lives are no longer just lived, things are no longer just done. People manage and maximize everything. There is no more spontaneity or naturalness. Every last Joe Average is a celebrity on Facebook with a managed image. Every company is trying to game or hack the system — tax, labour laws, whatever.
For example companies put people on task-based schedules to avoid restrictions on work hours per week. Everybody knows the taskloads are not selected so as to fit within a standard work day or week. Or companies that first sell or donate their trademarks to a parent or child on the Bahamas and subsequently pay 'royalties' and 'licence fees' to the effect of 50% of the end price. Or people trying to register something to the tune of Spaghetti Monster as a religion and expect to be treated on par with Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and so on. Or judges making things up as they go and hacking the law when they want to make a change Parliament is more properly suited for making. That kind of word of absurdities is no longer my word, so I end up living in the past. For example, I have a small collection of criminal-law course books from just after WW2 (my previous job), which are so much more lucid and erudite and still easily, simply comprehensible than stuff modern law professors and judges write. So yeah, old law books. My record is 3 bucks for a true gem that's no longer really available and was written by my professor's professor's professor — a brilliant scholar who gained a lot of respect but somehow failed to make a recognizable name outside of a narrow group of specialists. They don't make law professors like that any more. Dude was positively brilliant without having the advantage of just simply being a 170 IQ genius. It was basically legal mind well formed and properly bred, and that just doesn't happen any more these days.
