Retro Gaming Goals & Resolutions - 2015

[BoringSupreez]

My goal this year is to complete a single game on an old console. That's it. That's what happens when you go to school and have a full-time job at the same time, lol.

I think I'll try to go for a Spyro game, those are pretty timeless.

[alienjesus]

My backlog is out of control and I have spent waaay too much money in recent years on this hobby.

This was absolutely me until last year. Before last year I had spent a small fortune on this "hobby", no joke.

But last year I created a gaming budget. And in doing so got my spending totally under control. Now all of us have different incomes and different financial responsibilities in our lives, so what each budget comes down to is a case by case basis. The key is to choose that magic weekly "gaming allowance" and stick with it week after week. It totally works. You still get to feed the beast (inner collector) but not go broke buying mountains of games you will never have enough time to play. The guilt goes away but the games keep coming, just a bit slower than before.

Sorry if I came off preachy, this is just a subject I struggled for a long time with personally.

The problem I'd have with this is I'm at the point where I want to start picking up less games, but more expensive ones (lots of Gamecube, N64 & SNES games I want are in the £30+ range nowadays) but having that budget would make me want to get more cheap games instead of less XD

[Exhuminator]

The problem I'd have with this is I'm at the point where I want to start picking up less games, but more expensive ones - but having that budget would make me want to get more cheap games instead of less XD

Well it's like this. Let's say your gaming budget is a timid $30 a week. But that retro game you want costs $55. What you do then, is save the $30 from one week and apply it to the gaming budget of the next. This allows you to stay on budget while still collecting those retro gems.

[Autopilot]

That makes sense to me. Reminds me of being a kid and saving my allowance or lawn mowing money for a bike or new game when I was kid lol

[BoneSnapDeez]

I'm an "allowance" - mainly because I don't work. I can get away with spending about $20 a week.

[Exhuminator]

For me personally it's $45 a week. $~2300 a year is enough on this hobby at this point in my life. I used to spend so much more than that.

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I'm going to add beating at least two NES RPGs to my 2015 gaming resolutions. Lagrange Point and Chronicle of the Radia War perhaps.

[Snatch1414]

I take out $80. I allow myself $60 but the extra $20 is in case I find something great and need to make an exception. None of the places I go to have an ATM and once I lost out on a couple decent games since I had to drive away and come back. If you can resist the urge to spend the extra little bit it may come in handy one day. PS this is in the 5 or so warm months of the year not all 52 weeks. The rest of the time I just find what I find.

Which brings me to a resolution: I am not buying anymore consoles unless they come with all cords. I have 3 Ataris (a Vader and two heavy sixers) that I can't test and an N64 that I don't even know why I bought. (shameless plug for my B/S/T by the way)

[BogusMeatFactory]

My goal is not to collect more, as I have a really hefty collection of stuff that I am very happy with, but to incorporate more people into gaming.

I want to reach out to more people, get people over and get people playing more games, be it video or tabletop. I just want people to have fun. We get caught up in our day to day struggles that we never take a small portion of our time out to play and interact with others in our lives.

Blu, if you are reading this, you know I am gonna have you over to play some Dreamcast. You know you want to start a co-op game of Armada!

[RyaNtheSlayA]

My goal this year is to complete a single game on an old console. That's it. That's what happens when you go to school and have a full-time job at the same time, lol.

I think I'll try to go for a Spyro game, those are pretty timeless.

I'm in the same boat now.

I can at least get in a lot of Threes! on the can with my phone.

[Sarge]

I'll be honest, I don't really budget that carefully on my games... but I also am a cheapskate for the most part, so I'm not getting hit too hard in the wallet overall. I go through long periods where I don't buy anything, then I snap up a lot. It depends on the releases and what I happen across in retro stores.

If I had to take a stab at it, I probably spend somewhere shy of what Exhuminator does overall, but I don't have hard numbers to back that up. I actually slid through the entire Christmas season without buying anything for myself, excepting Smash.

I've actually hit my biggest gaming resolution already, and that's to beat Battletoads.