I don't have an investment in the past. I like the future and present all the same.
I guess where this comes from is the fact that, for most of my adult life, I've been interested in things that were 'thrown away' or discarded.
For example, when I built my own music studio in my bedroom, I bought a bunch of ancient machines. Vintage synthesizers (before they came back into vogue), vintage compressors, equalizers, strange tape echo machines, etc. Now, a lot of them were considered great gear back in the day, so it wasn't really junk, but there was a certain something special to me about playing with this ancient stuff that you just didn't see much in modern studios. I didn't know too many people jamming on an Arp Axxe with a Space Echo tape echo, for example. Many still consider that stuff relics of the past that has outlived its usefulness, etc.
So, when it comes to games, I liked to look in the past as well. I don't think everyone discards the past as trash, but just look at something like the cell phone culture we live in in now. People literally trample others just to get the shiny new cell phone, when there are objects that are a little bit older than can still be fun. But I guess it's just me.
I really have no deep investment in it one way or the other. For example, all my music making now is done on a laptop with a nanokey keyboard. Very simple, very modern, etc.
I'm glad that you fondly remember the game, too.
I do as well, and I really want to go back to it now and do a little bit of coverage on it for the 'Watch. I still really enjoy the old stuff, so it works for me. And you don't enjoy the old stuff, so it works for you.
On to the next one.