Asleep, dreaming.
So, I'm not dead, vanished or anything. I'm just in a bit of a game slump and I'm still moving into my new house. There's going to be a large announcement about The Gamer's Quarter very soon, so keep your eyes open for that.
The new house is really fantastic, and part of what it's allowed me is access to all of my videogame items. Since mid-November last year I've only had access to some of my videogame consoles which I brought with me while staying with my parents for a while. I also didn't have nearly full access to a television* which hindered not only my game time in general, but also majorly effected the flow of my gameplay so I found many things not as enjoyable as normal. I did fall back in love with PC gaming since that time and greatly explored its realms.
With the access (and organization) to all of my retro gaming items, I was dearly looking over my PS1 collection with shockingly loving memories. The irony in this is that the early years of CD-ROM based 32bit gaming is a pretty bad memory for me. During that time I thought an awful trend was started that has unfortunately continued: putting graphics over games. Some really awful tripe was concocted during those years in the early nineties, and even as a kid I could tell that it was tarnishing what I considered games. But when I picked up my copy of Mega Man Legends I saw that it was just a rough spot that I'd despised for so long and shouldn't effect the actual gems of the bunch.
It seems as though I'm not alone in my fond nature of the good items in that early 3D history, everyone else is too. After reading an article at I looked at some of my favorite games being up there with top sellers. I know there are many others that didn't make that list and are still worth much more than the $10 copies I was finding in used game stores no less than two years ago. It seems that the first generation of Sony's consoles games is ripe for harvesting. Not that I say this in a greedy way, in fact I'm a bit sad that I didn't finish up my collection sooner.
This same price hike happen with the Dreamcast before I finished my collection, and it's been slow work since games like Bangaioh moving from commonly seen at $10 new to over $50 in disc only condition. I feel stupid for missing on this and it just means harder work for me in the future. Part of me wants to say “who cares” in a much more digital age where these things are a mouse click away. The other half misses opening a package with a game and a loving manual in it.
These are strange times in gaming for me, and I think that the pricing of the PS1 is one of the signs. So in these moments of slight grief I turn something I never in my wildest dreams imagined I'd say, World of Warcraft with friends now distant from me. I leave you with the best picture in my collection of my wife and I playing together:
* which didn't suck
The new house is really fantastic, and part of what it's allowed me is access to all of my videogame items. Since mid-November last year I've only had access to some of my videogame consoles which I brought with me while staying with my parents for a while. I also didn't have nearly full access to a television* which hindered not only my game time in general, but also majorly effected the flow of my gameplay so I found many things not as enjoyable as normal. I did fall back in love with PC gaming since that time and greatly explored its realms.
With the access (and organization) to all of my retro gaming items, I was dearly looking over my PS1 collection with shockingly loving memories. The irony in this is that the early years of CD-ROM based 32bit gaming is a pretty bad memory for me. During that time I thought an awful trend was started that has unfortunately continued: putting graphics over games. Some really awful tripe was concocted during those years in the early nineties, and even as a kid I could tell that it was tarnishing what I considered games. But when I picked up my copy of Mega Man Legends I saw that it was just a rough spot that I'd despised for so long and shouldn't effect the actual gems of the bunch.
It seems as though I'm not alone in my fond nature of the good items in that early 3D history, everyone else is too. After reading an article at I looked at some of my favorite games being up there with top sellers. I know there are many others that didn't make that list and are still worth much more than the $10 copies I was finding in used game stores no less than two years ago. It seems that the first generation of Sony's consoles games is ripe for harvesting. Not that I say this in a greedy way, in fact I'm a bit sad that I didn't finish up my collection sooner.
This same price hike happen with the Dreamcast before I finished my collection, and it's been slow work since games like Bangaioh moving from commonly seen at $10 new to over $50 in disc only condition. I feel stupid for missing on this and it just means harder work for me in the future. Part of me wants to say “who cares” in a much more digital age where these things are a mouse click away. The other half misses opening a package with a game and a loving manual in it.
These are strange times in gaming for me, and I think that the pricing of the PS1 is one of the signs. So in these moments of slight grief I turn something I never in my wildest dreams imagined I'd say, World of Warcraft with friends now distant from me. I leave you with the best picture in my collection of my wife and I playing together:
* which didn't suck