Rotating Your Game Systems

[Weekend_Warrior]

I'm just curious if there's others like me out there who try to frequently rotate their game systems so that each one gets a fair amount of usage and whatnot?

Myself, what I sometimes do for fun is... work my way up through the years (as I remember it). I'll bust out my NES (which was my first system) and play that every day for 2-3 weeks. Then I box it up and put it away. Grab my Sega Genesis, pull it out of the box and play that for a few weeks. Then eventually I'll throw on the 32X adapter and play that for... well, a couple days. lol. Then box it all back up and look for my Saturn, and so on and so forth.

I guess that I like to do this for nostalgic purposes mainly. Ya know, to remember the feeling and excitement of advancing from one platform to the next? But I also do like the fact that all my systems and games are getting a somewhat equal amount of play and are not being stored away for too long.

I know that some of you have most or all of your systems connected to one or a number of tv's. But for the rest of us who only have one tv and limited connections, I'm wondering if anyone else tries to rotate their systems on a normal basis. And if so, how often do you usually switch them?

[swiftzx]

Before I got my second tv, I did this as well. I played my systems for a week each or whenever I got a new game. Good times

[girlracer]

I'm lucky in the fact everything is hooked up except the Odyssey 2, 2600, 7800, and Colecovision.

I'd like to get the colecovision hooked since I have the atari adaptor for it but I just am out of the shelf space.

[emwearz]

I have all my systems hooked up and ready to play all the time.

[Incognito D]

I just rotate them depending in which game I feel like playing next.
For example, right now my Wii and N64 are out. My Wii is permanently out since it is my only current-gen console and I always have one retro machine which rotates.
Right now it's the N64 since I just picked up Mystical Ninja 2. If I feel like playing a Dreamcast or SNES game then they'll come back out of storage.

[Hobie-wan]

Yup. Some stay hooked up all the time, but the others tend to rotate out as I get some (new) old game and swap things.

[Pichu]

All the systems I can hook up, are hooked up, (and even then, the only system that isnt cant, which is teh 7800) But I have 3 tv's spanning the 7 systems, and on the tv with 4 systems, i have to switch the RF box between my N64 and GC, and the RCA cables between the Gen and Dreamcast. So a little minor switching.

[Jrecee]

My game systems used to be stored on a giant rotating knex ferris wheel. The ferris wheel was attached to a computer which analyzed my mood through a complex Al Gore ithm and selected which system to rotate to the top.

Then my cat knocked it over so now I just play whatever I want.

[the7k]

Not me. Currently, my PS3 is the only system I even have hooked up. I have multiple TVs, but I'm too lazy to hook them up or any of the other systems.

However, this'll change once I get a really good game for another system. For example, after getting Cotton 2 about half a year ago, I pretty much played my Saturn and nothing else for a while - and after beating Cotton 2, I just moved on to another Saturn game instead of hooking up another system.

Maybe I just have really long rotations.

[CRTGAMER]

I have all my systems hooked up and ready to play all the time.

Could not have said this better!

Same here. All consoles hooked up through Component and Composite/S-Video video switch boxes and large commercial power strip. Admit some consoles get more use than others. But all hooked up conveniently ready for whatever gaming urge.

Honestly how many times does a closet console gets powered up?

S-Video especially takes a beating from unplugging and plugging. No way will I mess with the 5200 4 port Auto TV switch box. A proprietary single cable for power and TV cable signal. Can easily be damaged if not plugged in correctly. It is permanent hooked up to a dedicated RF socket. Easy to flip power supply strip on.