#go play metal gear go play chrono trigger go find as many weird old games as you can and fall in love with one of them

[lena--beana]

Being a game collector is so weird bc you tell your friends "hey have you seen this thing, it's one of my favorite things ever and if you want to try it you either have to hang out at my place for a week or emulate it which is always morally correct but there's like a 10% chance it won't play exactly right or buy it secondhand on ebay for $200 more than I did when I found it decaying on a gamestop shelf 15 years ago and you can only play it on the PS2 because that disc doesn't work on anything modern if it still even works at all"

but with movies it's like "hey have you seen Space Jam? It's an hour and a half, I've got it on DVD or we can rent it on five different streaming sites for like $5"

#big surprise i'm always going to advocate for game preservation #and i'll die mad about how hard it is for my friends to see these things that are important to me #go play metal gear go play chrono trigger go find as many weird old games as you can and fall in love with one of them #kitten politics #game preservation #collecting #game collecting #retro gaming #mgs #chrono trigger #chulip #mr mosquito #chibi robo #pikmin #silent hill #drakengard #haunting ground #castlevania #adventures of lomax #persona #persona 2 #shin megami tensei #illbleed #skies of arcadia #radical dreamers #wind waker #twilight princess