Ok Ok, let me say this: CLASSIC games have a much shorter grace period than NEWER games. It's sad but true.
It has nothing to do with it. When I think of CLASSIC games I think of games that were or are great, not just old.
Same thing about the consoles your mentioning, just beacause a console is CLASSIC every game for it isn't CLASSIC (at least not with my definition of CLASSIC)
If you were to have let's say 100 games for your PS2, GC or Xbox you'd do the same thing. You wouldn't waste time on ex. International Cue Club, Metropolismania, Street Hoopz they would stay in the DVD-case forever. (well you might try 'em out regretting it 5 minutes later)
But if you can just afford one game at the time, and you happen to buy Klonoa 2 (I'm not mentioning those other 3 games again, nobody in their right mind would buy those
) you would sit patiently until you mastered it. With a 100 other games you'd probably play it 5 minutes, coming back to it after playing through the 58 games in your collection that were better. The same thing might happen with your Sonic R-game.
I think CLASSIC games will have a longer lasting period the further time goes, with the Atari 2600 you'd have to own it in it's glory days to appreciate the games today (except for Smurfs
), but with a NES a few of those games could still be fun to a person that's been growing up with a PS2, I guess. Bla bla bla...
Now I really need to try Sonic R again, I've totally missed out on the button acceleration.