Well if you do research you see that lots of people wqant the older games, you find them on xbox live psn, steam ect youll see a lot of older games even abandon game sites have put off some of the games because suddenly they are sold again.

For me it's 20% nostalgia, 40% pleasure and 40% consciousness (as a gamer who knows about his roots).

Some "retro-games" are still enjoyable even after I completed them again and again, some others remind me the basic elements of my personal gaming way of life and the industry as a whole.

And by the way, that's why I fucking hate smartphones and all this "casual gaming" crap: they are disgustingly different from my gaming roots, their priority is to monetize your fucking time instead of giving you enjoyment. Fucking Apple, you shall burn in hell asap....

true but the problem is the price tag they got makes it sell very good and since making money is there main purpose

I beg your pardon? You buy NOTHING when you spend money on the Apple apps shit: when Mr.Jobs will decide your account isn't accepted anymore in Cupertino, your "apps" will magically disappear.

This isn't "gaming", this is just a dumb army of assholes wasting money on thin air. Seriously, my money for entertainment is worth much more than Apple would like to think about....

true and thats with the music also i used to have an itouch and bought all kind of games and music but now i got a mp3 player but all those songs are useless now even if i paid for them.

Welcome to the Disneyland of computers. It's the fuuuuutureeeee! (they say....)

true but i dont like the price tag what disneyland have so i go to a cheaper alternitive :)

That's definitely part of it for me. My laptop was on the more potent side when I bought it in 2006, but nowadays it's not up to snuff for many of today's games.

Nostalgia plays another part, and the opportunity to play games that I simply didn't have the opportunity to buy when new. Master of Orion is an example of this, a game that I really liked on the couple times I tried it on a friend's PC but didn't have the wherewithal to buy it myself at the time. By the time I could buy any game I wanted, it was no longer around.

And honestly, price plays a part. I can spend $60 on a modern-day game for a 10-hour play-through where the rest of any fun comes from online play or reliance on the mod community to change the solo game, or I can spend $60 to get 6+ games that I can play solo for many more hours. From a value standpoint, old games have some significant advantages.

Let's see.

- I was a kid back then so I couldn't afford to buy these games when they came out, nor could I afford a computer that could run them.
- Nostalgia
- Fun
- I love collecting things
- To make up for pirating these games when I had no money

I think those are the primary reasons, in no particular order.

Because I missed out on them for a variety of reasons, mostly age related, and I now have access to them first hand, why pass up the opportunity?

Because I don't play "new games", nor do I play "old games". I just play games. And some happen to be retro because I missed out on the PC golden years (I was still stuck with my Amiga during most of that time, then jumped straight to Playstation). By PCs golden years, I mean the years between '95 and the early 00's. The 80's was the C64 golden years, and '90-'94 was the Amiga's golden years.

Not counting consoles here, which I also play. Some of them happen to be retro, most don't. Just like the computer games.

That said, I'm also nostalgic as hell, so I do play some old ggames for the nostalgia sometimes. Most of the times though, they're good enough to enjoy even without the nostalgia, because we all know back then, games were something special and it showed. :D

Retro gaming is a choice. In most games, where you have to sacrifice replayability against graphics, graphics win. They garnish more instant sales, but lose in the long run as people recommend the games to less and less people. A great example of this is the many-times re-released FInal Fantasy 1-6 or Chrono Trigger. These have been on countless systems both from Nintendo and Sony and will probably be re-re-re-re-re-re-packaged for further resale in the future. Replayability and enjoyment over graphics forever man!

As xa_chan said, I think it can be argued that a lot of games that could be considered "retro" are far ahead of many current mainstream AAA titles in terms of plot, character development, narrative development, and pacing, among other things. Baldur's Gate II, and Icewind Dale for instance, still set the bar for me for judging many RPGs and cRPGs I've played.

It's part nostalgia with some titles and partly due to the lack of decent modern alternatives with others. With games like X-Com for instance there isn't anything that really replaces X-Com Apocalypse completely. The best efforts only get the basics right. I don't think that the new XCOM is going to change that somehow. :P