Free software is about _control_ over your _computing_.
In my view, retro gaming consoles may technically be computers, but I don't
use them that way; i don't do "computing" with them - i don't do any tasks
besides playing the game like an interactive movie.
RMS once pointed out that nowadays, some microwave ovens may be computers in
a technical sense, but they are not used as a computers, neither can you
upgrade the system or install software on it, so in his view it's not a
problem.
I think the same holds for retro consoles.
You use them like a dvd player - you put in the game, press start, that's it.
If I see the games as pieces of media (why wouldn't I?), it is perfectly
possibly nowadays to copy and share the games in the community, though it's
maybe not legal, just as with dvds.
The consoles have no way to work in a malicious way, they have no camera, no
internet connection, no data of mine, not even a harddisc.
For me, the remaining freedom issues are so theoretical and minor that it's
out of question to give away a world full of excellent masterpieces of
game-history for that.
