For me it was FF16. I avoided all the obvious traps like Gollum and Kong and Starfield, but was blindsided by my abject lack of care about the characters in FF16. The lead guy doesn’t remember the main instigating event of the story, then fails to believe it regardless of all the evidence. You can’t walk 5 steps without a 3 min long cutscene that does all the cool shit for you. It’s like watching FF7 summoning knights of the round every single fight, except now with 1000% the diarrhea christmas lights. Then after it happens, the lead fails to understand what just happened. Once he changed his name I noped out.

Pac-Man, Mario, a Tetris Block, OG Link, and Ryu.

Nostalgists who collect things like typewriters, record players, fountain pens, pinball machines, etc. They like technology that requires human interaction to function. The act of disassembling a fountain pen to clean and fill, then reassembled to use makes them happy.

They are a niche market that likes to interact a with fidgety technology and they actually embrace the quirks of getting it to work properly. The cost isn’t necessarily a prohibition, but serves as a badge of honor amongst their peers of collectors.

Ask someone with a Kiss Pinball machine how much they bought it for. They’ll either brag they spent way too much or they’ll tell you they got it for a song, and had to spend way too much to repair it to this pristine shape. The finding of parts and ability to fix it is part of the appeal.

Think of people who own and showcase Model T cars, it’s the same type.