Retro Gaming

[BigBrother]

Might sound sappy, but I love the physicality to it? It's such more of a conscious decision to decide what to play; and the mechanics of turning a console on, putting the disc in and hearing the little noises of the disc being read - and the fucking panic when a game isn't loading (looking at you Sega Dreamcast with your disc drive made out of cheese). Also, I own my games. I literally own them. So long as I have electricity I can play my games - delete my discs streaming services!

But yeah...I had a decent-ish game collection but I had to sell what I had as life sorta happened; so a big part of this has been re-purchasing a lot of what I had. I think I have most of what I sold - bar Silent Hill on PSX. I'll look into getting a copy this year maybe; I've done a lot of the bulk stuff; what I buy this year is going to be far more selective. A few big ticket things as opposed to 'let's get the entire FIFA series on Playstation' nonsense.

Been really interested in the Dreamcast and Mega Drive/Genesis for a bit. I grew up with the Playstation, I think I knew one or two people who had a Saturn and a Dreamcast; we were all waiting on the PS2, one guy on the Gamecube. But I'm slightly too young to have been a "Sega Kid". N64 might be next; I'd love to play No Mercy/WCW v NWO especially. But so much of the N64 catalogue is streamable on switch, and I've got one of the N64 wireless controllers that Nintendo did, so emulation might be a better option.

I was also playing with emulators last night on my phone; and I was legit playing Windwaker via Dolphin. Madness.