[geoffpado]

A lot of people clearly enjoy the actual hardware, the tinkering with it, the feel of the actual controls, etc. It’s not just about the software.

[Mountain_Skies]

Plus the emulators, despite being very good, aren't perfect. It's not unusual to have minor timing issues cause weird glitches in software that was written when the developer could expect little to no variance.

[matheusmoreira]

There are no cycle-accurate emulators for Atari hardware?

[LocalH]

Even "cycle-accurate" emulators aren't always perfect