Your journey into retro games?

[oxymoron]

Either way he's wrong.

Spoken like a true expert after collecting retro games for 1½ months

At least I'm not trying to diss retro games.

[ApolloBoy]

Even still there were a lot of games that were brutally long without saves. I've done a lot of overnight pausing in my time.

Don't forget that a lot of computer games of that era were also really long and impossible to get through without saving (in this case onto disk).

[KDub]

@Menegrothx

Why are you trying to justify that modern games are the Aryan race?

What the hell?

[oxymoron]

He's pining retro and modern games and trying to justify that modern games are the better of the two.

[GirlGamer55]

I'll add my two cents.

Well I grew up on the NES, SNES and N64. Also the Gameboy. I was in love with gaming even when I was a kid, so I always had to have the next better thing. I ended up trading my NES and all of my games for a SNES and maybe 1-2 games, did the same when the N64 came out. I always traded up.

After the N64, there was the Gamecube. I wasn't a fan of it at the time and I still have mixed feelings about it (it does have some good games), so at the time I went for a Playstation. I was blown away by it, so much better then the N64 (which to this day I still get headaches from playing it after an hour or two...the crude 3D graphics do me in). So of course I fell in love with Playstation and forgot about Nintendo.

It wasn't until I got my PS3 that I started missing my childhood games (maybe it has something to do with me growing older and life just getting crappier as the days go by). Of course I had no idea everyone else was getting the same urge to get their childhood back. I lucked out on getting an N64 and some games for cheap before people started realizing they can jack up the price. And playing the N64 again was...amazing. Brought back a lot of good memories.

After that I felt the urge to collect old video games. Maybe because it gives me some joy in my joyless life, or I just need to focus my energy on something so I don't think about how bad my life has gotten. Whatever the reason is, i'm now addicted to it, spending what little money I have on games.

I guess I use gaming as a crutch. I'd rather lose myself in LoZ: OoT then face my real life. I'v known about it for a while now...I can't help myself. To put it bluntly I have depression, pretty bad. My dad lost his job and well we can't afford health care. I'v had times where I needed to go to the doctor (flu, skin rash...whatever) but we can't afford it. And the "free" health care we could get isn't actually free because of the small income dad still gets from L&I (he was injured on the job). So I can't see a shrink and figure out what anti depressants I need (I used to take some but they had some nasty side affects on me, so my doc at the time pulled me off of them and said I needed to go to someone who specialized in depression because she couldn't help me anymore.).

Anyways the point of me bringing that up is because since I lose myself in games and use them as a crutch, I feel less depressed. It takes up my time and I forget my life for a while...that's what I need. Just to forget all my issues for a while.

I need to face real life at some point...but not right now, I wouldn't be able to do it.

Sorry for spilling out my whole life...I'v just been thinking a lot about these things lately and I needed to vent, even if it's on a forum filled with people I don't know.

[Menegrothx]

At least I'm not trying to diss retro games.

He's pining retro and modern games and trying to justify that modern games are the better of the two.

retro games for the most part have a much higher cost/hours of gameplay ratio than modern games

I never claimed them to be better, just that you're getting more content and length for your money

For a native speaker, you sure have problem grasping the English language. If there's one thing I've made abundantly clear during my stay on this forum, it's that I hate modern gaming and love the 1990s.

So I can't see a shrink and figure out what anti depressants I need

A word of advice: want to get rid of depression? Don't touch that junk, it'll only mess up your brain chemistry further (and cost you a lot of money in the process). Proper diet and exercise are the way to go.

[KDub]

^ I actually agree with that, I've always been against the meds for the most part. From what I've seen in my family and with some past friends they always seemed to have worse effects than benefits. Granted everyone is different and modern medicine changes all the time; plus, I'm not a doctor.

But I'm glad you can find some help in video gaming/retro gaming. Hope you can continue to find hobbies, grow with this one and anything else that can occupy your mind, anything in the arts always helps.

Certainly stick around and keep chatting with us about it too!

[Menegrothx]

Yup, game collecting and retro gaming are fine anti-depressants too

[brunoafh]

I had a nasty stint with pharmaceuticals to deal with depression and other issues (anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, totally makes sense to put someone on both at the same time), and to say the least I would not wish the effects on my worst enemy. It did not help in the slightest and the simple mention of people talking about going on them makes me cringe.

That stuff is to make other people able to deal with you easier, not to actually help you.

[oxymoron]

I always laugh when I see med commercials. They solve one problem and give you 10+ other ones. Why don't you try something homeopathic? It's slower to heal but it's all natural.