The Retro Gamer’s Lament

I wonder how many other retro gamers have the same problem that I do: I want to buy way more games than I probably should.  I’ve already posted a couple of Latest Haul posts and even sent myself on a mission to get the hardware and software required to play Snatcher.  On top of that, there’s a whole list of TurboGrafx games that I want to get, and to make matters worse, I’ve had seven 3DO games sitting in my shopping cart at Game Express for weeks now, just waiting for me to click “Checkout.”

For newer systems, it’s easy to not buy too many games — it’s awfully expensive to do so.  But when you’re talking about retro systems, it’s not difficult to bury yourself in a pile of “new” games.  When most of the games you want are less than $10 (and a good chunk are less than $5) it’s kind of hard to tell yourself “No.”  But if you don’t resist, you could find yourself surrounded by unplayed games.

I know this is a lot of what I said on the About page, but since writing that, I’m starting to get the distinct feeling that The Retro Review Project might be backfiring a bit… Instead of just motivating me to play through my backlog, it’s really reinvigorating my interest in games, making me want to buy even more!  Crap!