[echelon]

> I have never been able to fathom how people put so much effort into remakes of old games instead of, say, creating new games.

I've always held that when I retire, I'll commit to remaking Majora's Mask or Super Mario RPG. (Nintendo recently committed to the latter, but the tone is very different.)

Old games are a means of recapturing childhood nostalgia and reliving the fleeting feelings of youth. New games don't do that at all.

I'm not even a gamer anymore. I have next to zero time or desire to play new games. But I'd happily pick up something old to feel those feelings again, and I regularly watch YouTube videos of old games. They send you somewhere.