The 7th generation console cycle that consisted of the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, was the longest in gaming history. Needless to say, the golden era for those consoles have been long gone, and apart from multiplats like sports games or Call of Duty, you'll be hard pressed to find any new triple A titles … Continue reading Why I Love: Persona 5 on PS3
Let me preface this by saying that I love the Nintendo 3DS. It's one of, if not the best handheld system ever made. The gaming library is vast with variety, the ability to play old school classics on the Nintendo E-Shop is awesome, and the graphical upgrade between the original DS to the 3DS is … Continue reading Gaming Pet Peeves: 3DS Game Saves
I recently got my blue Wonderswan Color in the mail, and also bought four games to start my collection. After playing around with it for a couple of weeks, I'm going to breakdown my thoughts into pros and cons. Pros The battery life is rock solid! Using only a single AA battery, you can easily … Continue reading Wonderswan Color: Pros and Cons
I've recently finished binging the Mass Effect series, and one of the many, many reasons I love these games is because every piece of dialogue is voiced. I mean, even the plethora of NPCs you come across are all voiced over, and certainly not half heartedly I might add. Contrast that with almost every JRPG, … Continue reading Gaming Pet Peeves: JRPG Text Bubbles
Every console nowadays has access to the internet, accompanied with some version of an online store. So, no matter if it's a handheld or home console, there's a way to download demos of the latest games. But before that became possible, it was all about the demo disc. Demo discs normally consisted of a handful … Continue reading Gaming Memories: Demo Discs
When I was younger, I would pre-order a video game because the employees working behind the counter would instill the fear of said game being in such demand, that no pre-order meant no game on the day of its release. So naturally, I would do this with most every game that I wanted to own … Continue reading Gaming Pet Peeves: Game Pre-Orders
As a huge fan of the MetalJesusRocks YouTube page, I admit that I've watched many of his videos, numerous times. The videos I've looked at the most, have to be his buying guides. So a couple of days ago, I was eating lunch, and decided, why not pair my Moe's burrito with a Wonderswan buying … Continue reading Why I Bought a Wonderswan Color
One of the main reasons that people collect things, is to amass a large amount of items that they thoroughly enjoy. The problem that many video game collectors have, is that you own such a plethora of games, that there's just not enough time to actually play through and beat a lot of them. One game … Continue reading Gaming Pet Peeves: So Many Games, So Little Time
As a collector, part of the gig is owning an incomplete game. There are times when you get a game with no manual, no case, or both, and you'll eventually want a CIB (complete in box) copy. For me, the best solution to this problem is eBay. There are a decent amount of people who … Continue reading Game Genie Wishes: Replacement Case & Manual Site
There are few things that frustrate me more about game collecting, than dealing with those stupid price stickers that are plastered on almost every used game. GameStop is the ultimate perpetrator of this crime. They abuse each used copy in the store with the trifecta, or unholy trinity of price branding. One on the top … Continue reading Gaming Pet Peeves: Price Stickers
