Kicking this whole blog thing off because it is a quiet night and I fighting writing to be soothing. Anywho, I doubt I will update this on anything approaching a regular basis but I thought it might be fun to set up in case I want to use it now and then.

So I bit the bullet earlier and finally put in a paid subscription to Atari Age. Even though I'm not as active on the forums as others are, I really do like the website and figure it is worth my money. Plus with the ridiculousness that is eBay, I think the money is worthwhile to help build my reputation for doing private trades on the marketplace. Next up will be pawing through some of the homebrews whenever the AA store comes back up. I know there are at least a couple that I would like to have!

So I've been expanding my NES library a lot lately, including having picked up fifteen new titles over the course of the past couple of weeks. Not bad since I only owned about 30 games beforehand. In the course of browsing games to pick up, I finally found a copy of Streets of Rage 3 for under $40, which I gladly snapped up. I'm a huge fan of the franchise but I couldn't bring myself to pay what SoR3 had been going for. I probably should have just bought it for my Wii, but I enjoy owning the physical media...being able to look at the artwork on the box, holding the cart in my hand, etc. I haven't played the game yet so I'm very excited and have spent the last couple of times doing multiple playthroughs of SoR2 to get myself psyched up. I've heard that the third game is a bit of a disappointment compared to the first two but I'm a pretty big fan of Beat 'Em Ups so even if it at worst "more of the same" I think it will have been worth the money.

It is also probably the most expensive game I've bought on the used market. I've got several valuable games, especially PS1 RPGs, but most of those were purchased new. It's certainly now the most valuable game in my Genesis collection.

Last note: I'm pondering buying another system. I have several on my list: intellivision, Master System, Atari 8-bit, and the 5200/7800. I'm also somewhat interested in a colecovision though I feel more like I'll only pick a coleco up if I see a deal on one. One day I need to focus on actually getting games for my old systems instead of just buying a lot of hardware but I'm fascinated by all the different gaming machines that are out there...almost moreso than the libraries that make those machines worth owning.