[sadimgnik]

"Now if someone imaginative would port such great, parsimonious game designs to something like PC or Xbox, they'd have a built-in nostalgia market. Sigh"

A chipped Xbox, running a dashboard like EVO, can easily run MAME, or Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator.

I play jumpman on mine, and bank panic, and supermario, every now and then - cause they are more fun than a lot of xbox games :-)

[hoosierham]

Is it possibile that the games are becoming too complex to be FUN? I think the classic games endure because the rules are simple yet winning is neither too easy nor too hard.

[IslandJeff]

Being a complete wuss, I'm afraid of modding my Xbox.

Of course, if you'd tell me, hypothetically, how such a process could be, well, potentially, done, I might research such a potentiality.

In my perfect world, someone would just put a crapload of games on a disc and sell them to hungry old-style gamers like me.