I can’t help but laud the myopic vision of ModRetro, a retro video game console maker that aims to create products that exist in the rose-tinted vestiges of our nostalgia. Despite how fondly gamers might remember saving princesses or throwing banana peels out of go-karts, those video game systems were products of their time and were made to best fit within those technological limitations.
For early 3D systems, images were soft and blurry, with rough polygons that could barely construct a believable face. Frame rates were poor but were tolerated because it was the first step into the third dimension. Even with these deficiencies, fondness for that time period remains ever-present, as it came before the heavy pressures of adulthood.
