Today I made it a mission to discover where I had put all of my “other” video game stuff in the storage unit I have. After 30 minutes of playing tetris in reverse I finally discovered the three missing boxes, at the bottom no less. After reversing my reverse-tetris I started to feel geniune excitement over my rediscovery.
Mainly I wanted to find my missing PS2 games including Fantavision, FFX, FFX-2, Gran Turismo 4, Grandia Xtreme, Soul Calibur II, Taiko Drum Master, VF4 Evo, and Wipeout Fusion. I’ve been itching to replay FFX and “zen-out” to Fantavision … Maybe I’ll even toss Grandia Xtreme back onto my long list of PS2 RPGs I’ve started and mean-to-finish-someday.
But who am I kidding? I don’t really have the time to dig into my collection, school starts back up next week, and work has been unfun recently. Yet, even though they’ll continue to be “neglected” I can rest easier knowing exactly where they are.
There was some purpose to digging my dusty video game collection off, I intend to sell some of my collection to buy an art tablet for my PC, or perhaps a PSP which I can play for a week or two, and then neglect as well. >.<
In my collection I have a Sega Saturn with many import games, a Sega Nomad with a few Genesis games, a PSone with the LCD screen, an American and Japanese Sega Dreamcast, and a refurbished Xbox and a handful of quality titles.
Sega Saturn American Sega Saturn (currently needs AV cable) 2 American Controllers 1 Analog Controller Controller Multi-tap Baku Baku Christmas Nights (sampler) Last Gladiators Night Warriors Panzer Dragoon II Zwei Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV Shining Force III Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo Virtua Fighter Virtua Fighter Remix Virtua Fighter 2 Virtual On Wing Arms Japanese Multi-Game Adaptor (required to play Japanese games) 4mb Memory Cart (required for some games, mainly Capcom fighters) Cyberbots Dragon Ball Z Fighter’s Megamix Groove On Fight (memory cart included) King of Fighters ‘96 Magical Drop III Marvel Super Heroes (requires memory/4mb cart) Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter (requires 4mb cart) Pocket Fighter Real Bout Fatal Fury (memory cart included) Samurai Showdown (???) Street Fighter Collection Vampire Savior (requires 4mb cart) X-Men vs Street Fighter (requires 4mb cart) Sega Dreamcast American Sega Dreamcast Japanese Sega Dreamcast 2 Controllers 2 Arcade Joysticks Games not cataloged yet Microsoft Xbox Refurbished Xbox System Burnout 2 Burnout 3 Crimson Skies Dead or Alive Ultimate Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball Fable: Lost Chapters Halo Halo 2 Limited Edition Mech Assault Phantom Dust
I’m torn on selling some of my collection, I have fond memories of hot-swapping adaptors with my Saturn to play Marvel Super Heroes in almost full arcade glory. Yet I have to ask myself “Why am I holding onto this stuff?” especially as they collect dust, and the chances of having a nostalgic bender last longer than the time to hook everything up is small.
Maybe it’s just me trying to hold on to my youthful memories of when I was a “hardcore” gamer. While I can’t consider myself a casual gamer, I’m definitely no longer of the hardcore crowd. I just don’t have the free time to do so anymore. (Not to imply that it is a bad thing)
Perhaps in the process of gathering everything together, cataloging it, and finally taking pictures of it I’ll find what I need to move on. Some extra money couldn’t hurt right about now.
