Younger folks fucking love games from before their time and there's a surprising amount of cultural literacy about games - there's so many fucking good games out there and between emulation and Youtube longplays it's really easy to become really familiar with a huge variety of game franchises. You could run Dolphin on a toaster these days and that gives you access to about a decade's worth of games.

Just as an example... Not to say that there aren't old Klonoa fans who were pumped for the remakes, but when those were announced, a lot of the most excited fans I saw on Twitter were lil squirts. Even the Wii remake was 2008 - chances are a lot of fans just experienced it through videos or emulation. I love that, sincerely - games are, all things considered, quite well preserved and accessible.

I think that the panic over the 3DS and Wii U shops is... a LITTLE overblown? 3DS and Wii U emulation is surprisingly pretty good? But it's not as accessible as more dated emulators that run on worse PCs. I understand where the panic is coming from because there's a lot of games on those that just aren't anywhere else, and also, ultimately, people are just protective of their games library. People want this stuff preserved and accessible, and Nintendo doesn't really do a great job of it.

(I will say that, in my opinion - the Virtual Console was a way worse situation than the NSO sub, and when people talk about how VC was better I think they're stuck in old ways. For like a decade, Nintendo was really out here asking us to pay five entire dollars for NES Tennis)