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Gaming Innovation, Nostalgia and Achievement Hunting

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              Hello. I swear I’ve posted some of this before but I cannot find it anywhere. Maybe I’ve posted bits and pieces but oh well, it’s not like anyone reads this thing anyways. IF for some reason I have a dedicated fan that has read all my stuff and this sounds familiar; I’m sorry.             I started playing games when I was still in diapers, so I’m told. It was the NES, my parents got it for my sister but she wasn’t at the house throughout the week so I played it. I remember a lot of Tiny Toons, Mario 3, Mega Man 3, Ninja Turtles 3, Bubble Bobble. We moved when I was seven so my parents gave the NES to my sister since it was for her afterall. I eventually got a Sega Genesis, from a cousin I think but I really liked the Sega. Sonic 2, VectorMan 2, Light Crusader, Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter. I rented Light Crusader a lot and it had a save feature on it, which wa...

Physical VS Digital

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                 This whole Sony going discless is still affecting me more than I thought it would. I’m probably more of a digital/PC gamer but it still is a shit move. The more time goes on the more I hate that I’ve sold all my old consoles. I took care of my shit so when I buy second hand stuff, like Wiimotes, they’re not great, buttons kind of stick, yatta yatta. I’ve bought games multiple times, either I had it on the 360, sold it but then got it on PC, probably on a sale, but I have bought games two, sometimes even three times. I’ve bought Monster Hunter World and Iceborne on PS5 and PC, I almost think I bought it on release, returned it and bought it digitally on PS5. I’ve wasted SO much money on re-buying things. If I had kept my old stuff I probably wouldn’t buy some other remakes/remasters as well. If I still had my original Crash Bandicoots I probably wouldn’t have gotten the N. Sane Trilogy because there’s nothing really added...

How to Kill Your Brand

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Well well well. After my last post I was planning on going into how I was the biggest Xbox fan back in the day and then have just lost faith in them and now Sony decided they wanted to be a disappointment too. I guess I’ll just try to go in chronological order and start with the 360 and get to now and Sony.             I got into Xbox back during the original Halo CE. During an event at school, my friends had secured a room and several TVs and brought their Xboxs to LAN Halo. It was my first time playing Halo or an Xbox but I was hooked. I can remember playing Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, thinking of what my gamer tag should be. The 360 came out and I still think it's one of coolest consoles we’ve had. I liked how when you played co-op games on the same Xbox/TV your controller would show you which player number you were, I’m assuming that it corresponded to which screen you were on the split TV but I don’t know for certain, it wo...