Some of the crumbling retro offerings make me think of the Ship of Theseus. If you keep replacing parts of an item until none of the original remains, is it still the same item? What about a game which has a new a new cartridge shell 3D printed, using the same plastic, with a repro sticker which looks and feels exactly the same? What if it eventually has a new circuit board printed, with new connections, and gradually all of the old chips are replaced by new ones which are perfect replicas? Its functionality is exactly the same and it plays the same, but is it still your OG Super Mario World SNES cart?
The answer is “no”. What a waste of time that was!
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Re: Playing The CeX Retro Lottery
Some of the crumbling retro offerings make me think of the Ship of Theseus. If you keep replacing parts of an item until none of the original remains, is it still the same item? What about a game which has a new a new cartridge shell 3D printed, using the same plastic, with a repro sticker which looks and feels exactly the same? What if it eventually has a new circuit board printed, with new connections, and gradually all of the old chips are replaced by new ones which are perfect replicas? Its functionality is exactly the same and it plays the same, but is it still your OG Super Mario World SNES cart?
The answer is “no”. What a waste of time that was!
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