qbradq wrote:
2. I have very little nostalgia for that system, and that's a big motivator for me.
Heh, this is a funny point for me. You know, I have
zero nostalgia for the NES... I didn't have one as a kid, and in the few instances I had contact with them I was too busy snubbing my friends because I had a Genesis.
Despite that, the NES is my favorite system nowadays. Actually, all 8 and 16-bit consoles and computers fascinate me, if I had the time I would program for them all! For some reason I picked the NES, maybe because I was amazed at what some games managed to do with the hardware, once I got to know it through emulation.
Since I can't code for all the systems I'd like to, the ones I actually plan to make games for are the NES, the SMS and the Atari 2600. Out of these 3, the NES is the only one I don't have nostalgia for, but it's still the one that gets most of my attention!