As far as Retro Gaming is concerned, and personally as an European,
pretty much every time that a conversation opens about these games
from gone by decades, there's always the higher-than-high chance
that the conversation leads to a very specific subject, even more if,
as I said, you live in Europe (I'm Spanish after all), or other places,
like Oceania or Africa.
And that's because while as of today, there are some standards that
we could point as globally accepted, it hasn't been always like that.
Decades ago, video games from one part of the world could work
very differently, sometimes becoming incompatible with devices
of other parts of the planet, rendering them useless.
That's why I'm going to expose some general information here,
so we all can understand several aspects that will help us with
these games and systems from old days, like the different Video
formats, the importance of knowing from where a game comes from...
Or why that expensive "Complete In Box" Nintendo 64 game you just
got your hands on has little to no real value because it's a PAL copy,
making your look like a dork when bragging about your purchase,
unless of course, you wanted a paperweight to look nice and not
a functional game you can, you know, actually enjoy.
...
But whatever, let's get into the matter.
pretty much every time that a conversation opens about these games
from gone by decades, there's always the higher-than-high chance
that the conversation leads to a very specific subject, even more if,
as I said, you live in Europe (I'm Spanish after all), or other places,
like Oceania or Africa.
And that's because while as of today, there are some standards that
we could point as globally accepted, it hasn't been always like that.
Decades ago, video games from one part of the world could work
very differently, sometimes becoming incompatible with devices
of other parts of the planet, rendering them useless.
That's why I'm going to expose some general information here,
so we all can understand several aspects that will help us with
these games and systems from old days, like the different Video
formats, the importance of knowing from where a game comes from...
Or why that expensive "Complete In Box" Nintendo 64 game you just
got your hands on has little to no real value because it's a PAL copy,
making your look like a dork when bragging about your purchase,
unless of course, you wanted a paperweight to look nice and not
a functional game you can, you know, actually enjoy.
...
But whatever, let's get into the matter.
