Favorite hobby

 My favorite hobby would have to be retro gaming. I hate to tell people about what I do when they ask "What do you collect?" not that it is annoying,  I just hate it when I do tell them, I tend to ramble on about this subject that they most likely have never even heard of, and then I begin to feel awkward that I am going into such detail that this person does not care. But to be honest retro game collecting can be fun, and risky, what do I mean by risky?

Well, I usually get my systems from flea markets, so I sometime have  to be concerned with whether or not the system even works. An other main contributor is the the fact that I fear faultiness, and failure to work is that I have a very,very limited amount of money, so if I buy it from a flea market and  it does not work, wait till next money pay roll comes in! But it worth the find! because once I get a system, a whole new door opens, all these games I can now play! 

See, I don't play to be a hard core gamer, I see video games as an art, an experience, I play for the adventure, not for high score, not for highest kills, but for the thrill of being someone who I'm not, to be a plumber killing helpless turtles, or how to be a kid saving all of time, and etc. 

Bubsy 3-D

For each system I experience different "experiences" for example, in a SNES I can experience the thrill of a 2-D platformer game and bosses with undodgeable attacks, and then in the N64 I can experience "Super Mario 64" a revolutionary game that helped define today's 3-D gameing and how they should be played, then also in the Sega Genesis "Sonic The Hedgehog"  presented speed in a video game, with the PlayStation only then could anyone experience "Busby 3-D!" literally a platformer! (yeah bubsy was a bad idea) But oh! the experience portrayed in the PS2's "Shadow of  Colossus " this game will fill anyone with the ultimate adrenalin rush, as the character climbs up towering beasts to slay them, to save the main character's dying love.

Shadow of Colossus

I could go on but as I said, I hate to ramble, so just remember this, "Video games are a form of art."