Vintage

Over the past couple of days, I've been playing PlayStation (one) games pretty religiously, and it's gotten me thinking why those games stopped being popular. I mean obviously technology got better and people wanted the new and improved, all around better versions of what they already had, but the old versions are still pretty damn good! Take the PlayStation One for example. In my room, I currently have the PlayStation One, a PlayStation Two Slim Edition, a GameBoy Colour, a nintemdo DS (original) and a Wii, and although I enjoy the Wii when I have friends round, I find that it's not the sort of thing I can easily play on my own. I can't find any of my DS games other than an R4 card with no enjoyable games on it, I own no decent games for my PS2 because my brother sold them all before he decided to give me the PS2, and the GameBoy just isn't cooperating with it's batteries at the minute, but I will not give up on it. However, this leaves me with the PS1 games. I don't actually use the body of the PS1 because 1) it's currently buried at the bottom of my wardrobe, 2) I don't want to break it by having it out when it can be stepped on/thrown/punched, and 3) I already have too many wires around my TV to add more to the pile, but PS1 games work on the PS2 which also plays DVD's so really it's very convenient. However, I still get that really good feeling from playing PS1 games. Now I don't know if it's the pixels or just that it's something that I've dug up from when I was really little, but I get so excited about playing them, whether it's Spyro, Tony Hawk ProSkater 4, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the first PS1 game I ever bought and played), or Abe's Oddesey. They're all from the very depths of my childhood and they were old back then, so much so that they seem almost vintage now. Now I know they're not really vintage, I mean it's hardly a Nintendo 64 (which although is not a thing from my past, is something I really want to own) but sort of like the 64, I wonder why it ever went out of fashion. The obvious answer is that they went out of production so they eventually stopped circulating, but vintage clothes are coming back into fashion now, so why aren't there masses of people demanding a reproduction of PS1s and Nintendo 64s? Why are people still obsessing over COD? Mario seems to have done pretty well for himself since the 70's, I'll admit, but everything else just died when technology moved on, and that just saddens me.
Vintage clothes are coming back, will technology make a return trip as well? Will iPhones and Blackberries go out of fashion, to be overtaken by bricks again? No. It's not going to happen, because when it comes to technology, people are always going to go for the newest, most high-tech gadgets they can get their hands on. Of course there will always be vintage gamers, but the term vintage is eventually going to evolve. It'll have to, because one day the Wii will become old enough to be classified as vintage. Now I don't know what the classification of the expiration dates on fashion and technology is, but I do know that we're making such an evolutionary leap in technology so fast in the past 100 years, that it could get scarily more advanced in a scarily short period of time. And then what'll happen? Computer appocalypse! Forget zombies, be afraid of the computers! Sure, zombies'll kill you and eat your brains and then recruit you into their undead army, but computers are smarter than that. When a zombie appocalypse happens, you know about it, but when a computer appocalypse happens, you don't even know what's going on until it's too late, and then BAM. You're dead, killed by the microchip in your 52" LED plasma screen TV. See, Spyro would never do that to you.