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Yeah, lol. I don't need a huge stack of game discs and cartridges when I can have a folder full of roms on my computer, with good backups.
Best of both worlds, really. The convenience of not needing physical media, the permanence of having it (maybe even more permanence, since files with good backups should last longer than physical media would -- potentially forever).
And then there's the extra bonus of emulation allowing me to make various improvements -- running old games in widescreen with higher resolution, for example. Or using AR/Gecko codes to implement some quality of life features in old games that could really use them.