Someone actually beat Tetris in the NES earlier this year. I mean beat, as in into submission. They got far enough that the game couldn’t handle the progression anymore and crashed.
Sounds like you just need to do a case swap on the VRPC. A case w/o all the RGB gamer aesthetic solves most of your issues for about $50, since you already have decent hardware available.
For your use as a secondary system, not that I’m a Valve shill, but I kinda still suggest the Steam Deck… You wouldn’t have to mount a secondary screen, since it’s already built in, and it gives you the option to kick back however you want on the couch to play.
The amount of times I’ve sat on the couch playing on mine with one earbud in while my wife is watching TV is pretty significant, so a bit of asynchronous play would be available there as well. A small, black, zippered case can be tucked away a lot easier than a wall mounted swing arm as well.
I had looked into getting a Micro PC for a living room setup, but ended up getting the Steam Deck because it gave me more options for around the same price. I got mine about a year after they released & after getting it I realized I should have gotten it sooner.
Understandable, I was just suggesting it as a cost-effective choice. Consoles are usually more hardware than you pay for, and ≈$500 for a ready-to-go solution right out of the box isn’t bad.
The useless screen isn’t much different than a docked switch, or using an old laptop as a HTPC.
Bonus is if you ever want to upgrade the system, you can still use the deck as a portable solution later.
You can get a knock off dock for about $25, and a non-OLED deck is $400. Minimal setup to get. Emulators running, and the whole thing is portable if you want to relocate to a different room / a buddy’s house / a projector in the backyard.
I remember having to clean up after my cousins coming to my house, playing every game I owed for 30 seconds each, fingerprinting all the discs, and not putting them back in the correct cases.
…is this where my anxiety and anti social issues came from?
Four Swords is the most competitive co-op game I have ever played. It’s brutally fun, but you’re going to want to punch your friends in the throat after about 30 minutes.
To learn Kingdom Hearts lore going in blind you’d need an autistic kid who’s hyper-fixated on it, a couple cases of monster energy, and a weeks worth of LSD micro doses.
That should get you up to speed on about 50% of it.