College Problem

[Harvey]

I was lucky enough to have a gamer roommate my freshman year (who ended up being my roommate throughout college), so over the course of the year, we ended up fitting quite a few consoles into our room: PS2, Dreamcast, X-Box, Gamecube, SNES, and N64. We just brought the PS2 and the N64, but then others donated their systems to the room once we became friends.

[HeavyMetalMe]

Over my first year of college, I brought my Dreamcast and Genesis to school, took home my Dreamcast, accumulated a 3DO, Jaguar, and Mini SNES, took all those home, and for the second semester, I only played my DC.

I guess I discovered it was all I needed. Maybe you'll find that in one of your systems.

[skate323k137]

my advice is only take consoles that you can run backups on (I.E. Dreamcast, maybe softmod your PS2), that way you can leave all your original games at home and just play your burned backups. That way if someone 'borrows' a game or scratches a disc, it's only spare change to replace it.

[Ack]

Storage back at your parents' place until you move into an apartment big enough to hold all of it.

[AwesomeMonstar]

Good luck, tho, I hope you like the school you got into. What are you majoring in?

film. my gpa is kinda crap but my sat and sat scores are damn good so I'm looking at more middle range schools like boulder, LMU, and Chapman. Aside from that, the other college I'm real interested in is evergreen.

[Original_Name]

I'm going through the same thought processes. I think I'm gonna mostly emulate, but burn alot of Dreamcast games and actually take a Dreamcast with me. I have this 3-in-1 joybox thingy that plugs into a USB port and lets me use a Dreamcast, PS2, or Saturn controller, so I'd more or less set on anything pre-Dreamcast. It's just that the Dreamcast is a system you have to flaunt. It's just too awesome. And it seems to bring out alot of emotion in people; alot of people seem to have had one at one point and now miss it, or had a relative who had it and will ask if you have "that sword-fighting game" or "that taxi game". It seems to carry a bit more whimsical of a feeling than the other systems. Plus I ended up with a spare, since back in the day I had a Dreamcast whose lens became loose, so I bought another one. Way later in life I figured out how to tighten the lens, so now I have two working Dreamcasts. I'd take the older one since it doesn't remember the date (internal memory issue that I never cared enough to fix), and if it got stolen or broken it wouldn't be an enormous loss, but I'd be wise enough not to bring my other Dreamcast.

But anyway, yeah. I don't intend to spend a massive amount of my college years hunched over my videogames, but I want to bring a few classics with me on my laptop and a decent collection of backups for an actual Dreamcast for more social gaming, because the Dreamcast is awesome for that.

[ubelaffe]

film. my gpa is kinda crap but my sat and sat scores are damn good so I'm looking at more middle range schools like boulder, LMU, and Chapman. Aside from that, the other college I'm real interested in is evergreen.

Film - like film studies or film production/media arts? I'm in film studies at University of South Carolina. It's like a comparative literature degree with films as lit. Theory, foreign film, genre film, film music, media convergence...

If you're looking to operate cameras and learn technical film making, Fullsail is supposed to be good too. That's in Florida.