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It's times like this I wish I had a bigger house. There's so much of this old tech I just want, or at least I want to see and hold them. Basically I want a hands-on retro gaming museum.
It doesn't take up that much space. You sound like my wife lol
It does when you're collecting multiple retro consoles, all their cables, any adapters you need for modern TVs. I've had to make do with a Series S in dev mode running Retroarch for my retro gaming needs, and even then I can't get it to use anything other than an Xbox controller.
There's a free to the public pinball museum near me, not quite the same thing but I could see the possibility of one for retro games, but they would probably have to charge a fee to prevent people ruining or stealing stuff unfortunately.
I used to have a room dedicated to retro games and tech, but since having kids, it's all been crammed into closets. Once they're old enough to not break stuff, I plan to get the "museum" out again in some form so that they can enjoy it.