Resolution to a Problem

Okay, so yeah I've been gone for a while. Turns out that school started again. And yes that is an incredibly generic excuse and I should be thoroughly punished as a result.

Mainly cause there's a lot of other reasons too.

You see, my New Year's Resolution, aside from the standard "Be a Nice Person," was to do my hobby more than learn about it. What I mean is, for a while all I did was learn about video games and their culture, history, tid bits, and all that. But I was forgetting a key point. Playing games.

If you look at my track record, you'll see some very startling things. I feel like the equivalent of the guy who's never seen a Star Wars or a Star Trek move (for the record I have). Some of the major titles missing from my list seem to be Super Metriod, Chrono Trigger, either of the Super Mario Bros. 2's, Star Fox 64, the first half of Kirby's library, the list goes on.


Yet how do I go on and on about things like this? I've played 4 Zelda games and have beaten one (Hint: not the ones that are impressive to beat), yet I can go on and on about Zelda lore, themes, heck, I can even simply explain the basic design of a Zelda dungeon and how it's evolved.

In fact, I own next to none of the orginal copies of my favorite games. Not piracy or anything, but ports. Mario 3 on Game-Boy Advance SP (Oh yeah, I was hip at 7) was the first game I ever owned, aside from Tetris and Chess on a regular Game-Boy. Next game? Yoshi's Island on the Game-Boy, which is my all time favorite game ever.

And that's basically how it works for me. I get tons of classic games, but they're all ports, be it strict console ports, compilations, Virtual Console downloads, or even an app, those classic games aren't what they were, and sometimes it feels like I'm missing something.

The oldest system I ever played... heck the oldest system I've ever seen in person is a Nintendo 64.

But that's not a problem that will be fixed unless I find hundreds of dollars and get a good look around ebay. I do, however, plan to do more with my hobby. I'm going out, buying games, beating games. I've started really trying to play games to completion. I'm trying not to spoil story based games so I don't skip out on them. (Which basically seems to solely keep me from watching hundreds of Paper Mario Let's Plays). Needless to say, it'll be an adventure. Perhaps as grand as Pikachu's.

Oh yeah... working copy of Red/Blue. Gotta write that on the list.