Since thrusday I've done lot of things like I said I will do on my earlier post, I did went to a Mima show, she is like this Fionna Apple singer that mixes also some reggae stuff into her charismatic music. I am not a fan but still, respect what she does. Besides that, on friday I was finishing some divorce stuff, everything went smooth, I mean I'll do a post about it, because it was all a postive experience, no one is mad at each other it was just a mutual decision, that happens when you realize in the long run that you married to a predon totally different than you, and then both people realize it and decide to keep goin on with the lives. After all each of us have already different partners. ANYWAYS during the weekend I did some other stuff and others I couldn't but one of them wasn't on my plans, it just happend; I got to do some console and video game investment again.
ON my way on the highway to the country house with my family I got a call from the Play n Trade video game store, telling me that they got a Sega Dreamcast for $40 (of course I had to detour, I deceived them taking them to Marshalls); I mean the Dreamcast is not that old, but is hard to find, I know I've seen it in new conditions on a pharmacy like 2 hours away from here, but the price is well over $260, so I am like ...well I won't buy it. So, I told the store that whenever a Dreamcast arrives to call me, actually I was the third on the list but since I know the guy on the counter Randy, he called me fiert so in less than 30 minutes I was there ready to buy it. The thing is, right now I am collecting video game consoles, not current ones, but former ones, right now I have a: PS2 (I still play psone titles on it), Gamecube, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Atari Jaguar, 3DO (still need to fix it all right), Sega Saturn and well besides my Gameboy SP and PSP that is pretty much it. People say I could play many of those console games on Emulators, but still is not the same experience, I am even so serious about it that I did a 2 part story on the newspaper talking about it. Here is the links to the web version of the story which is in spansih:
Part 1: Emulando tu Diversion
Part 2: Emulando tu diversion 2
Maybe one day I'll do an english version of it, becuase I do talk about some interesting issues like were the line draws regarding collecting and emulating.
Anyways, going back to the Play n Trade store where I got the Dreamcast, I also found 2 other jewels by accident. Saturn Bomberman and Mars Matrix for Dreamcast. I've been looking for Saturns Bomberman for quite sometime now, this version of Bomberman is classified as the best yet and its over 10 years old. Its a game sought by many video game collectors as I. The game in Ebay is around $50 (THE CHEAPEST) and that doesn't include shipping and handling that some sellers put like $10 extra or even more! Actually I jsut looked and there is a cheaper one around $25 plus shipping, but it is from Japan so is not that trust worthy. That means, to get that game you need to invest time and money to get it, so for me it was shocking, going to Play n Trade looking for the Dreamcast I was promised when suddenly I saw on the display a pack of Sega Saturn Games and there it was... Saturn Bomberman as new, I had to interrupt the guy and said.. HOw much is it?.. he said $2.99. ..... I can't even explain... I jsut love this store and ignorance from the person that gave it to the store. If that person sold that game on Ebay he could've gotten over $30 easily but instead, I got it for $3 plus tax. So right now I have a collectors game actually sitting on my bed cause I was reading the date to write it on the blog. And it is like new. Anyways, the other copy I got like I said earlier was Mars Matrix, this is one the ost entertaining Shoot em Ups I ever played. I did played the game on MAME but is not as fun on a console where you get limited credits plus other features to enhance the gameplay durability, like using your score points to go to an ingame shop and buy, lives, credits, speed, levels, graphics etc. The game is really fun, actually I was playing it and now it is on the menu screen as I write this. The price for this game was the same one as Ebay minus the shipping, so I think it is all right, it is worh it.
I love this old ivdeo game consoles they work as checkpoints of my past, even thou I didnt even owned any of them (All I had back then was a Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Playstation) they were on the magazines I read, and I did wanted them at the time but didn't have the money. Now I do, So I am getting many of them when I can. Still, I put prices for the consoles that I am looking for, as an example I wouldn't pay more than $100 for a Dreamcast (luckily I found mine for way less than that), or I wouldnt pay more than $40 for a original Nintendo, so I just wait (still waiting actually), until I find the right price and then I acquire it. Now, things will get tigher on my budget so Ill be more cautious when collecting the video games. But still I have over 100 titles here to play in the mean time. Some day Ill write a blog more in deph regarding the video game collecting, since there are some real HARDCORE video game collectors in the world. Well thats it for now..fuck I am late for work.
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