Originally posted by BaD_BURN
I was playing Tekken 3 recently on my comp when a friend of mine walked in. He thought I was playing a PC port of the game!
The next morning, the poor guy spent 12 hours store-hopping EVERY game store, looking for a PC version of Tekken 3.
When he couldn't find one, he went back to me and asked me where I got my 'copy'. I told him I was playing the PSX version. He had that
look on his face. Then I proceeded to tell him about the wonderful world of PSX emulation.
You see, man, this is funny... it appears that here in Brazil people are discovering game emulation just now. You can see in almost every gaming magazine something like 'learn what is an emulator' or 'wonderful: play SNES games on your computer'. That looks strange to me as well, since I'm a veteran.
I guess that this remained kinda underground for so long 'cause only a minor portion of population have internet at home. And emulation dissemination is heavily based on the internet. I mean, I cannot tell statistics about every nation's online users, but at least here it really is like this.
Maybe they didn't discover now, but decided to give a better attention to it /only/ now because day by day more and more people get a computer at home, so maybe it wouldn't have been so interesting to 'advertise' something that people would not fully comprehend at that time.
Still, I think PSX emulation is yet beginning to properly work. For sure we will reach the day that ePSXe will be the zSNES of Playstation. By that time, more people will have gotten to know emulators as well.
Whatever...