My old consoles / computers are either gone or not working. I always got one computer hooked up to the telly and I have an old USB joystick and although it's not at all genuine, just playing emulator on the TV with joystick in hand does give it some appreciative level of authenticity.
Oh - and I'd rather play c64 games on emulator than on my old one. I would pray to all sorts of deities in the hope that the games would actually load and all of them being on casette tapes, of course I had to wait for quite a while for games to load. The emulator has the possibility of speeding up loading times.
One piece of hardware I don't really miss that much.