| VAMatt said: I miss the days of walking into the store, having no idea what game you're going to leave with ,looking at pictures and reading the backs of boxes, and leaving with a new game to experience on your own, without the taint of other people's opinions. |
Those were also the days when I was a poor kid and most of my game-getting came on Christmas and on my birthday, which is two weeks after Christmas. So I was pretty picky with my games. That meant making safe bets on Nintendo and on home ports of arcade games, which were a little more risky depending not he quality of the arcade port. Knowing that I wasn't likely going to get much more in the way of games without an awful lot of yardwork or paid babysitting made me a lot more risk-averse in terms of being stuck with a crappy game for an entire year.
