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Older systems have much less delay between the controls and the screen than modern systems do. USB is slow. HDMI is slow.
That may be the case, but I just think that those simple ideas are the most fun. They didn't have good sound or graphics, so they had to focus entirely on gameplay and they created a lot of games that are incredibly fun to play despite being very simple.
Yep. But old arcade and console systems can also have pixel-perfect gameplay not only because the pixels are big 'n chunky, but because the controls are extremely low-latency and entirely synchronized to the game processing and the display.