You might be on to something here. I spend more time configuring things rather than playing games (mister fpga, real hardware or emulators).
I think having access to any game up to about 2004 has caused me to feel opportunity cost in playing any of them. I remember friends complaining of the same sort of thing once playstation piracy took off. It got to the point were one guy I new would purposely buy real retail games that he wanted to properly play because he knew if he got it on CDR it would be worthless to him and he'd not invest the time in it.
I think having access to any game up to about 2004 has caused me to feel opportunity cost in playing any of them. I remember friends complaining of the same sort of thing once playstation piracy took off. It got to the point were one guy I new would purposely buy real retail games that he wanted to properly play because he knew if he got it on CDR it would be worthless to him and he'd not invest the time in it.