Old & New

I got one, it's gorgeous. There's a few games on it I haven't actually played such as the Kirby games and Secret of Mana, I'm looking forward to playing them. I'm impressed with how well everything looks and feels on my TV and I'm looking forward to seeing it get hacked. I won't be putting much on it like I did with the NES Mini though, just a few more SNES games like Chrono Trigger and SimCity.

I put so much time and money into DDR, Easy To Dancer and Pump It Up in the early to mid 2000s. Every week I'd be down at the local Namco Arcade Station putting money into those machines. Then I bought the home versions and eventually started using Dance With Intensity and Stepmania. By the end of 2004 I'd had my fill though and moved onto Initial D which had just made its way to my arcade. I was pretty much done with rhythm games for the next decade but now I have the itch again. It started with Final Fantasy Theatrhythm and the Project Diva games and more recently I've been playing a ton of Stepmania again. It's been fun, it's been incredibly fun. The next step was to get a dance pad. I'm not close to an arcade unfortunately and a dance pad would be more cost effective anyway in the long run. It has to be a hard mat but finding one used in the UK is next to impossible and no one makes them new over here anymore. I did some research and the Omega GX from Pr...

Total amount spent on games in 2012: £617.39. A lot higher than I wanted to be honest but I did buy 2 NTSC NES consoles, an NTSC N64 and a 3DS XL. I bought 43 games but beat 57 and removed 3. For 2013 I'm not going to buy a single new game until I have at least less than 10 unbeaten games in total. Purchase Record 2012 January's Game: Assassin's Creed Cost: £7 Status: Beat February's Game: Goldeneye 007/CC Pro Bundle Cost: £19.99 Status: Beat March's Game: Ys: The Oath in Felghana Cost: £9.99 Status: Beat April's Game: Mega Man X4 Cost: £20.76 Status: Beat May's Games: Arma 2: Combined Operations Cost: £20.29 Status: Bought solely for DayZ Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance Cost: £0.99 Status: Sold Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana's Movie Madness Cost: £1 Status: Beat Donkey Kong Land 3 Cost: £8 Status: Beat June's Games: NTSC N64 + 6 games Cost: £63.99 Status: Beat Wario Land 3 Cost: ...

So apparently Direct2Drive became Gamefly and I lost 3 out of the 5 games I purchased on there. I lost Swat 4 Gold, Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Complete. I do still have Gothic 3 and Mount & Blade but I have those on Steam anyway so who cares? So yeah, fuck that and fuck them.

And the DS dosn't make the cut! Off you go my friend, maybe your next owner will actually use you.

The PSP's going, all my PAL NES games are going, some of my NTSC NES games are going, all my PS2 games bar Ridge Racer 5 are going as well. The Dreamcast.... I don't know, I really should sell it, I love it but I don't play on it, it's only there because of the memories it conjures up and I really feel it's time to move on.

I finally picked up a 9x gaming PC. It's a 500MHz P3 with 128MB RAM, a 20GB HDD and a built in ATI Rage Pro. Overall it's not too bad, plays just about everything, it's a prebuilt Compaq machine and although I am quite impressed with how they managed to fit so much stuff into such a small case, it's quite limited when it comes to upgrades. I was pretty bloody excited when it came and immediately installed Windows 98 SE. For some reason it just refused to boot though and after spending a couple of hours trying to sort it out I gave up and just threw ME on there because really, all I wanted to do was see if all my old games worked, and they did!!! ME's impressed me quite a bit actualy, it has mass usb storage drivers out of the box and had drivers for all of my hardware. The GPU drivers had to be updated of course but apart from that it was ready to go from the first start up. In the future I'll probably build my own custom machine, this system's more of a mid...