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- Feb 3, 2019
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- Sydney Australia
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
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- Tekken 7 (always Tekken 7)
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- danmann861
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Inspired by a conversation I was having in the Gaming Vinyl thread over the general gaming section...I got to thinking about nostalgia for physical media in general.
Do you have any nostalgia for old physical media? Or do you still collect old physical media?
The two biggest ones I have a love for is vinyl and CD. I still tend to buy a lot of music on CD and about two or three years ago I started collecting vinyl with the release of the Shenmue vinyl...I was kind of apprehensive about getting into vinyl because I knew it could be an expensive hobby, but once I bought a turntable and some decent bookshelf speakers, I actually found myself falling in love with it all over again and became hooked on collecting vinyl.
But CDs I've always stuck with ever since I was a kid. I still have most of my CDs from when I was a kid...so a lot of $5 to $10 singles as that was what I could afford back then. I don't know, I just like buying a physical copy of an album to keep instead of "renting" (aka streaming). Even though most of my CD collection is now ripped to a Network Hard Drive...I still love having those CDs ready to go and I still tend to buy CDs over digital.
But it got me curious about nostalgia for old physical media in general. I mean people are still collecting VHS and cassette tapes like crazy...personally, I've moved on from VHS. Once DVD came to fruition, I honestly never looked back at VHS as I felt DVD was a superior format in every way...but lately I do kind of understand the appeal a little of that old analog feel. Not that I have any interest in collecting VHS, but I guess I started waxing nostalgic a little. There is something to be said about watching a VHS tape and getting to a racy part of a movie where someone has rewound it a little too much
So yeah? What say you? Do you have any nostalgia for old physical media? Do you still collect any old physical media? Gaming? Music? Movies? Board games? Books? (it's funny, I bought my first kindle last year and I still find myself buying physical books more than Ebooks....go figure.)
Do you have any nostalgia for old physical media? Or do you still collect old physical media?
The two biggest ones I have a love for is vinyl and CD. I still tend to buy a lot of music on CD and about two or three years ago I started collecting vinyl with the release of the Shenmue vinyl...I was kind of apprehensive about getting into vinyl because I knew it could be an expensive hobby, but once I bought a turntable and some decent bookshelf speakers, I actually found myself falling in love with it all over again and became hooked on collecting vinyl.
But CDs I've always stuck with ever since I was a kid. I still have most of my CDs from when I was a kid...so a lot of $5 to $10 singles as that was what I could afford back then. I don't know, I just like buying a physical copy of an album to keep instead of "renting" (aka streaming). Even though most of my CD collection is now ripped to a Network Hard Drive...I still love having those CDs ready to go and I still tend to buy CDs over digital.
But it got me curious about nostalgia for old physical media in general. I mean people are still collecting VHS and cassette tapes like crazy...personally, I've moved on from VHS. Once DVD came to fruition, I honestly never looked back at VHS as I felt DVD was a superior format in every way...but lately I do kind of understand the appeal a little of that old analog feel. Not that I have any interest in collecting VHS, but I guess I started waxing nostalgic a little. There is something to be said about watching a VHS tape and getting to a racy part of a movie where someone has rewound it a little too much
So yeah? What say you? Do you have any nostalgia for old physical media? Do you still collect any old physical media? Gaming? Music? Movies? Board games? Books? (it's funny, I bought my first kindle last year and I still find myself buying physical books more than Ebooks....go figure.)
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