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I've actually had a handful of items come back to me that I got rid of. It was neat, and I appreciated the novelty of it, but there's no special attachment based on it being mine. It's a mechanical good that enables me to play. That's all I care about.

I've had steam since the release of CS 1.6. I've got like 70 games since then. I enjoy it but it gets overwhelming quickly and I find if I have too many decent choices I tend to just pick the same stuff each time so I've sort of disengaged from it. All things considered I find it to be a great balance of DRM headaches and convenience. I'm also in no way a PC game collector, though. I mostly use PCs for LAN gaming.

I pretty much stopped buying retro games and started just focusing on all the content coming to the Switch, PS4 and 3DS. I've also pulled way back on gaming purchases. We have more than enough and if I do buy it's usually something the kids can play or that I can play with them. This year I'd like to focus a bit more on gaming creature comforts. Our game room needs a new couch badly and I should replace the TV in there with a model with less input lag and that takes advantage of the HDR content on the PS4. A nice sound system would be good too. Our newer main TV died and I decided not to replace it as two TVs on one floor just felt like too much.

I use a Roku because I don't really want to leave my console on all the time for streaming.

Other than the hilarious method you did your spins by charging up, yeah, I recall 2 being nowhere near as good as 3 or 4. At least I have 3 on my vita I guess.

I've had similar experiences with the 3DS and a bad SD card. Got a new SD card and it was fine. That said, it's worth a call to customer support.

Most everywhere I go in UI I got top to bottom and / or left to right. On the XBone it feels like I'm in the middle and have to guess how to rotate my Rubik's cube to get what I want. And last I recall I'm not immediately displayed with what I likely want. A game. Both PS4 and Switch seem to do this just fine. My favorite being the Switch, right up until I launch the store. Then it kinda falls to pieces.

This would probably be a cool gift from someone that's not that clued in. Get a kid the box and access to loads of content easily. Or even for me, I don't follow the xbox releases that closely so it would be rather convenient if my kids weren't already so game rich through my hobby.

Bomberman 64 was a huge holiday game for me. We used to go to my cousins' every year and they were mostly insufferable dicks but one other kid and I used to hunker around the N64 for hours and play Bomberman 64. It was a real bright spot of the season which was mostly both of my parents working massive amounts over overtime and a lot of snow. I still get the urge to play when it snows. I didn't get into any other iterations before or after the n64 era as much and when it went back to 2D I was a little sad. I really enjoyed having lots of depth in the levels and I find the grid kinda boring after it.

I think my tolerance for paying for NES games everywhere with an appropriate controller has really reached a limit. And post-Wii Nintendo has really gone off the deep end with clutter-by-controller. I already have a switch in handheld. The joycons separate with little slide on piece, a pro controller, and a piece of plastic to make joycons into a crappy version of the pro. I like their games but I'm done ceding my drawers to piles of hyper specific piece of plastic and metal. A subscription on top of that? Sigh.

Target is also like this it seems. We've price matched quite a few things against their website. We didn't get any flack for it but I found it irritating. Sort of the worst of both worlds coming together.

No reason for any hate. If they offer a service that's good for you, woohoo. Our nearby one is actually pretty good. The workers are friendly and helpful enough. Most of the local shops are retro shops, which normally I'd like, but they don't tend to have anything I want and prices are generally more than I'm willing to go for. I don't go to any shops all that much anymore though. I'm way too back logged.

Big fan of gaming historian and I do enjoy game chasers.

I got it at launch and only put a few hours in so far. That's something I'd really like to rectify. I really enjoy the vibe. The presentation reminds me of Skies of Arcadia, a long time favorite.

Someone did for Dreamcast, it seems. https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10948 Your post rattled something in my brain.

Skies of Arcadia. Just give it to me.

Doom 2016 is one of the very few games I would buy on the switch and something else because it's fun enough to romp through on beefy hardware / with mouse and keys as well as portable. It also goes on steep sales enough on non-Nintendo platforms that it's pretty viable. A repeat in that vein would be most welcome.

Freshness, focus, and time. Chrono Trigger was big for me. My cousin had it and I'd never played a game like it where the graphics, music, and battle system were so good (to me) It was also fun because we took turns playing for like 3 straight days. I can buy Chrono Trigger now that I'm a big boy with a job but I can't recreate any of that very reliably. Just accepting that has caused me to change how I collect these things. I've started to enjoy the surrounding media a lot more and just get ports of the games. I find the net payoff to be greater. If I happen to get the time, I focus on enjoying it, not what I'm playing or how.

At this point I would assume HDMI to be required. With that in mind it's hard not to say the Switch. The thing comes with two controllers and has quite a few local multiplayer games. It's quite small, even with the dock, and also can be it's own screen. I could also see a homebrewed Wii with HDMI adapter. Pretty easy, small, and opens up quite a few libraries.

This past week I actually packed up my CRT setup. It just became too much to have around when might also had a modern display with good response for emulation. I'll probably try and find a nice home for this 27" JVC i'art. I figured I'd be a long hold out but eh, my tastes really changed in the last year I found.

On one hand I think the library might end up being weaker with some of the third party hits in licensing hell and a lot of that era's polygonal games didn't age very well. On the other hand it also would probably benefit the most from some modern up-scaling or whatever magic on a modern display and It was a fantastic local multiplayer machine. I passed on the first two because playing a lot of the SNES / NES games I like was already easy and looked fine. I could see myself pick this one up for the HDMI-ness of it all. I didn't love the N64 controller but I also didn't mind it so that's a non-issue for me.

I increasingly find myself playing more and more modern games. I never thought I'd see the day where I had all major current systems. But the reality for me is there are enough good titles on each as well and system specific features I like enough to do that. Granted it was over time and mostly on sale, but still, it's a good time over all. For my use I don't feel that left out by not picking up all the extra DLC or loot boxes etc. I still feel like the titles I do choose to get are full games that are worth my money. While there is plenty that might feel gated off, the fact is I have access to way more games for reasonable prices than ever before. It's a good time.

After getting a PS4 on sale not too long ago I picked up a Hori Vita grip that has physical buttons to push the back touch screen. It's great for the remote play games that use the back touch pad. The ones that use the front touch pad are just confusing. I'm not sure who plays that way and thinks "Yeah, this is a good idea.". While I'm not fond of the idea that getting a third party hunk of plastic is required to enjoy a console more, I can't argue with the results.

Given the ever collapsing retail industry it would be cool to see that used as a draw. They already stick a bajillion giant TVs everywhere. Something to encourage going out instead of the often frustrating experience to pay more. But like everyone else, not holding my breath.

I was in Cleveland this weekend for a convention (pycon) and we walked to a nearby restaurant called Corner Alley to eat. Turns out they have a bunch of arcade games on free play scattered around and I ended up playing Turtles in Time, Gauntlet Legends, and Mortal Kombat 4 for over an hour. I was pretty surprised to see that they had around a dozen real arcade games around to play a this point in time. I hope to see this as more of a trend.