Sometime the interfaces people want are not always the most natural or efficient interfaces. Some people like what they are used to, or retro interfaces. One example is this game system made out of a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge. They put a screen and buttons in it, and it has a hard drive that you can store NES and gameboy games on. You can find it here . This system may not be advanced as a new Game Boy DS or Sony PSP, but it can play nintendo games and has the nintendo controls inside of a nintendo cartridge. I couldn't ask for more. Sometimes nostalgia can make people like an interface more.
Since this is for my System Interface Design class, I probably shouldn't advocate using something like nostalgia to advocate an obsolete UI, but I can't help it. The Nintendo was the first system I ever played, and I miss the days when I didn't have responsibilities, I could just play nintendo all the time. But getting back to the topic, this isn't the only recreating of an old system. Many people do it, here is a not so old ps2 . Both of these systems have similar controls to the original system they are recreating. Is this because they like the interface itself more than something else they could have done, or just because they want to play it as close to the original as they could make with their custom system?
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