Slimebeast on 05 February 2016
| Shadow1980 said: I'm fairly hardcore. I've been playing video games for over 30 years. I've always played regularly to this day. When I was a kid I was absolutely fascinated by the machines, and I enjoyed playing on my old Intellivision and I looked forward to playing at the arcades. When I first saw the NES circa 1987 or '88, I became obsessed with Nintendo; I got one of my own as a Christmas gift '88, and I was also given a subscription to Nintendo Power, which I read avidly. During my preteen and teenage years, the Genesis and especially SNES consumed countless hours of my free time, and since I was multiplatform by then I read EGM just as much as I did Nintendo power in earlier years. Since 1998 when I got my first job I've probably spent close to $6000 on video games, which is a lot for me considering I don't have a lot of discretionary income and there were periods after I moved out of my parents house in 2004 where I went many months without being able to buy anything for myself aside from food due to various unexpected expenses. There was also a period from about 2001 to 2005 where I spent a ton of money on anime DVDs (by my late teens I had become as obsessed with anime as I was with video games), not leaving a lot for video games. While money is still tight at times (I spent most of last year paying off a truck and a credit card bill, and most of 2014 paying off an AC unit), I still try to buy games whenever I can. |
You sure are hardcore.
Out of curiousity, what were those unexpected expenses in or after 2004?
And what is an "AC unit"?
