/vr/ - Retro Games

Having all of my games in one place with box art usually leads to me "actually playing™" less games, kinda the Netflix effect of spending more time browsing the collection than anything. When compounded by a compulsion to fiddle around with Shaders menu for an hour, I prefer the focus of already knowing which game I want to play then navigating to that file in Explorer.
What RetroArch excels at is party environments or giving friends/family a tour of what emulators can do without displaying what would come across as hassle. For a Christmas gathering I curated a list of every PS1 game my family owned plus a few extras, and RetroArch let me spend more time passing around the controllers and almost no time having to fiddle with menus. People value effortless fun, even if they aren't the ones putting in the effort either way.