Originally Posted by
Mangar
The appeal is simple: Not everyone wants to have a bunch of CRT's and annoying wiring mechanisms, for the few times they actually sit back and play the old-school games in their collection. Flat screen HDTV's are cheap, and easy to mount, and as often pointed out - Without any modifications, old school consoles look like garbage on them.
It's why I've largely switched to pure emulation. I can have multiple flat screen TV's across the house, and with a centralized HTPC - Have access to all the games, in various locations. Just works out better. The polymega has zero appeal to me, because it's emulation based hardware. However, I will say that things like the NT Mini or Hi-Def NES, have me interested. There is a certain appeal of popping in a real cartridge, and sitting back to play it with a real NES joypad. Honestly, I think that's the wave of the future in terms of collecting. It gives legit reasons to keeping your old cartridges around, and even add to, or finish your collections.