Topic: Your latest retro purchase

Got an awesome deal for these 3 that it was too good to past up on!

@waveboy
My first hours with Breath of the Wild were also great. Still I can not even think of replaying it, or Tears of the Kingdom, something that would not happen with a true classic .

The official stategy guide for Kingdom Hearts I by Piggyback. Part II should follow in the next few days. I know I could just use the internet but using good guides is more fun and magical and kinda old school.

Continuing my latest hobby - buying faulty retro(ish) consoles on eBay to try and repair, and then not having time to actually fix them so they pile up in a box at the back of a cupboard! I picked up a second PSP 1000, a 5th (or maybe 6th?) Mega Drive, and a couple of Xbox 360's.

I've got a couple of weeks off work over Christmas and new year, so hopefully I'll get time to have a look at some of them...without buying any more.

@dmcc0
Sounds like a real challenge. I hope you will be successful.

Just bought sengoku basara 1-3 on sony systems.

My coworker gifted me Willow for the NES for Xmas.

@NintendoByNature I didn't know you had an NES. Loved that game when I was kid, definitely had some Zelds vibes. Enjoy the game.

@Tasuki yep. Have had it since I was born basically. My brother got it and since he's 5yrs older than me, I grew up playing that until we got a genesis when I was about 7-8 or so. I never had willow but played it on my raspberry pi for a few hours. I really want to attempt to complete it.

@NintendoByNature That's cool. I still have my NES too just don't have a way to hook it up to a modern TV. I also have most of my favorite NES games on current systems in one form or another.

Thanks. I think the real challenge will be not picking up any more before I fix some of what I've already got!

@dmcc0
True, but I am sure you can do it. Besides self improvement can be alot of fun, so do not be too harsh on yourself, if you make mistakes.

By the way this almost sounds like a gamer problem of picking up new games and neglecting or dropping unfinished ones.

@Jhena I very rarely buy stuff at release, so that's not really a problem for me with games. I do often pick up consoles/handhelds when I've still got a huge backlog on other systems though - I've still got PS3 and Wii games that I bought new that I've not played yet, as well as loads of older games going back to Mega Drive, Game Boy etc that I've bought more recently. I've even got games now (PSP and Evercade) that I don't even own (working) systems for 😅

@dmcc0
Do not worry about it. I think almost everyone has at least a few backlog games. Sometimes I buy retro games without having a concrete plan when I will play them, because I fear the price might go up in the future. Thankfully I also do not have this problem with modern games. Only one new game on the PlayStation 5 is waiting to be played, Granblue Fantasy Relink.

@Jhena Yeah, it's definitely more than a few games in the backlog 😅…

1000+ at the last count - although to be fair that is counting compilations as multiple games, rather than a single title so the numerous Arcade compilations have probably inflated that figure quite a bit. There's likely some duplicates there too, as I've got a couple of them on multiple systems. I've got a Midway arcade compilation on PS2, Xbox Series and PSP for example.

@dmcc0
Woah, that is alot. Hope you can finish a good chunk of them, if you feel like reducing it. I am always wondering, do games which I drop because I do not like them still count as part of the backlog?

@Jhena I guess it's up to you whether you consider them part of the backlog.

For me, I'd say if you're done with it - whether that's 100% complete, or 30mins in and you've decided it's not for you - it's no longer part of the backlog.

I'm not too bad for dropping games that I've bought - I might not finish them 100%, but I usually get enough value for what I've paid for them. It's very rare when I feel like I've wasted money on a game - although I never pay full price or buy at release, so that probably helps.

@dmcc0
Thanks. I guess in the end I should just try to enjoy the games and not think too much about stuff like this.

@Tasuki yea i barely play mine as it's never hooked up. I intend to though. It's such a rush of nostalgia

@NintendoByNature Oh yeah without a doubt. Even if it's a game that you can play on NSO for example, there's just that blast of nostalgia of popping a cart in the original NES and grabbing those controllers!!