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Some great stories in here. Love to read them so keep them coming. Oh absolutely! I think of myself as being very lucky not only by growing up during the boom of videogames but also at the time and place where it allowed me to constantly play an arcade cabinet and a pinball machine from the early age of 3. Those early years made me into the gamer I am today and when getting a NES many years later solidified it even more. Yet discovering the MegaDrive and later on the Saturn, both at a time where I was thinking I was growing out of games, pulled me back in in a whole other way and made me realize that I need arcade style games to be happy. So I'm extremely glad that I can appreciate games from the early arcade days just as much today as I do modern games. Although my gamers heart lies in the past. That is probably the reason why I'm not happy at all with the current generation and partially the last one as well. Arcade games have become a dirty word. Looked down upon as throwaway games that lack depth and are only good to be played for 5 minutes before moving on to the next one. The flaw in this reasoning, and I can't believe the overwhelming majority of gamers today feel this way is, arcade games have such a huge amount of replayability to them. While lots of todays games can be enjoyed only once through and then no more, unless you truly love the game in question. I can easily sit down with Elevator Action or Xevious and spend the whole afternoon or evening playing those non-stop. While at the same time I find myself getting very easily bored with the latest and greatest gaming has to offer. Not that this applies to everything. As I can just as well play an all-nighter of Crash Commando for instance or WipEout HD. Yet, this probably has to do with what kind of games these actually are. Disguised in a nice shiny HD coat of paint, but at heart arcade styled, trying to fool people there are something else. Something entirely different that I've observed, but which has been mentioned in the thread. Kids today growing up with PS3s and 360s not only not appreciating classic games, but seemingly unable to handle them. I've watched this happen on many occasions over the past couple of years when I went to babysit a friend's kids who started gaming on a PSone at a very young age. They moved on the PS2,Xbox, GC and now PS3 and Wii. They played basically nothing but 3D games and can most of the time hold their own, and in many others even kick my butt. Yet, when I bring a NES or MegaDrive or SNES with me and let them play Super Mario Bros or Super Mario World for instance, games which we all agree upon are timeless classics, they not only seem to get bored of them rather quickly. But what's more surprising and a bit shocking to me at the time is that they can't seem to handle them. Remember when we played SMB for the first time with the d-pad? Running towards the first pit and dropping straight into it, having even trouble jumping over it when we know we had to? Well these kids have now about 8 years of gaming under their belts, so they should be able to handle something as archaic and bare bones as SMB? Guess what, they can't. Watching them plummet to their death and jump headfirst into a Koopa over and over again is so painful to watch. The worst part is, instead of pushing on and learning how to play the game like we did, they just give up... So there's definitely a flaw with the logic lots of modern gamers use in describing 2D games as simple, boring and outdated. For us those games might be simple, well simple to understand anyway, because we played nothing but for a decade or more. But for lots of kids today they are not. So in the end yes, I'm absolutely 100% happy about growing up when I did and feel a bit sorry for the kids today that crave their 50+ hour story driven, FMV loaded, bloated "entertainment packages" that pretend they are videogames... And that's the end of my old fart rant.

The only request I have is that each member only have 1 of these threads......If you go to sell more in 3 months from now.....just bump this thread. Other than that....your fine

I see nothing wrong with posting your ebay stuff here like this. So, here is a bump for the topic to get it in the recent discussions (for some reason threads have to be responded in once to get in there).