Old skool gaming
Dec. 16th, 2007 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valis2Just spent an hour hooking up the Texas Instruments 99/4A computer and playing some old games like Parsec and Hunt the Wumpus.
It's in preparation for selling a bunch of old stuff off. Seriously, I have multiple boxes containing obsolete video game systems, and I need to get rid of this stuff. As much as I adored Final Fantasy III and ChronoTrigger, I have to admit to myself that I'll never play them again. Final Fantasy VIII is still shrinkwrapped and waiting to be played, after all. And if I'm going to spend 40+ hours on a videogame now--it's going to be Xenosaga III. Seriously.
So I found that I have four (!) TI 99/4A computers hanging out in my closet. Two work, two don't. A Turbografx-16. A Sega Master System. Genesis with CD. Sega Dreamcast. 8-bit Nintendo. Super Nintendo. Also, lots of games. An Intellivision. An Atari 2600. Pong. Sears Tele-games. Wires and RF switches and joysticks, oh my.
I'll be keeping the Atari (it's such a party machine!), Pong (slice o' history), and one of the TI computers. It was such an integral part of my childhood that I can't bear to get rid of it--though I will be selling off some of the games. Don't need Othello or Video Chess, for example.
But Parsec? Definitely staying. Damn, I still love that game. In fact--I wrote fanfiction about that game, now that I think of it, lol.
It's in preparation for selling a bunch of old stuff off. Seriously, I have multiple boxes containing obsolete video game systems, and I need to get rid of this stuff. As much as I adored Final Fantasy III and ChronoTrigger, I have to admit to myself that I'll never play them again. Final Fantasy VIII is still shrinkwrapped and waiting to be played, after all. And if I'm going to spend 40+ hours on a videogame now--it's going to be Xenosaga III. Seriously.
So I found that I have four (!) TI 99/4A computers hanging out in my closet. Two work, two don't. A Turbografx-16. A Sega Master System. Genesis with CD. Sega Dreamcast. 8-bit Nintendo. Super Nintendo. Also, lots of games. An Intellivision. An Atari 2600. Pong. Sears Tele-games. Wires and RF switches and joysticks, oh my.
I'll be keeping the Atari (it's such a party machine!), Pong (slice o' history), and one of the TI computers. It was such an integral part of my childhood that I can't bear to get rid of it--though I will be selling off some of the games. Don't need Othello or Video Chess, for example.
But Parsec? Definitely staying. Damn, I still love that game. In fact--I wrote fanfiction about that game, now that I think of it, lol.
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Date: 2007-12-16 07:05 pm (UTC)