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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stonehead" data-source="post: 9637780" data-attributes="member: 7047885">That's interesting. I definitely get nostalgic for the game itself. Old descriptions, artwork, and covers trigger nostalgia for me in addition the experiences. Even the layouts of the old class progression tables hits me a bit.I don't think so. At the very least, I don't feel that way. It's just that being "readily available" requires more than a pdf being purchasable. I mean, most of us still have the old hardcover books for games we used to play. It doesn't get more available than already having it. But finding a group willing to play it, and the time to prep everything is more of a hassle.I think you feel nostalgic for things after you've stopped interacting with them. I don't feel nostalgic for Smash bros, because I've played it on-and-off for 15-20 years. But a game like Undertale that I played once or twice a decade ago, and never again, is very nostalgic.Or, for a better example, Runescape was very nostalgic for me around 2015 because I used to play a lot as a little kid. Then they re-released the old servers, I played it a lot, and it stopped being nostalgic. It became just a game I played.It's harder for me to come up with ttrpg examples, because I don't think my group has ever revisited a system after not playing it for 5+ years. Still though, I think the trend would probably hold.</blockquote>