Hello, my name is Daniel.
I've had my account for a while. I won't even act like I was lurking, I've just been downloading copious amounts of data off the site and filling my hard drive. Making sure she's well fed. Might as well blow the dust off and spin my wheel.
I turned 30 this year. I received my first real video game console when I was 13. A Nintendo 64, pawned off on me and my brother by friends' parents. They considered a household with two Video Game Consoles, a Wii and an N64 to be a massive moral failing. Before this, the always-offline PC of my family was my only access to funtime software. Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, a few other oddities. Always dreaming for access to the handhelds and consoles of dreams. A few months later after getting the N64, my brother and I were blessed with another gift. My first real video game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Off to the Races. Hours of my life turned to months, to obsessive years. I bought a PS1 because I liked my first Final Fantasy (VII) too much to watch it run terribly thru ePSXe on my Mom's computer. By the time I carried a New 3DS XL, and a PSP, and a DS Lite in my backpack every day to sophomore year, I thought I knew all there was to know about these toys of mine. I hadn't even played ICO yet. Over a decade later of obsessive years, and now I wish I understood what I thought I did then. Buried in plastic, wires, engines, concept arts, staff names, terminology, disambiguated nostalgia. An avalanche of titles and things I wish I could experience fully some day. A hoarder-esque pile of newspapers with my obituary written on every one, stacked to the ceiling.
At some point, you realize that you will never love or touch everything you ever hoped you could. It's an awful sensation, that knowledge gives you. However, in my case, I decide to push on. I was shown very early in life that there is a finite end to all this, and running from that makes no sense. All I will allow myself to do is either stand still to appreciate what's around me, or move down my path.
Since I got into gaming so late in my life, and so late into it's life, I don't feel like I belong to or connect to any particular era. I, in 2025, enjoy Devil World on my Sharp Twin Famicom the same way I enjoy Donkey Kong Bananza on my Switch 2 the same way I enjoy Baroque on my Sega Saturn through my Saroo. They feel different, they taste different, but they occupy the same chamber of my heart.
Do you really want to get to know me?
Games I like a lot right now:
Final Fantasy X
Community Pom
Suzuki Bakuhatsu
Neon White
Metal Gear Solid 2
OFF
Dead Rising
The House in Fata Morgana
Donkey Kong Bananza
No More Heroes
Jumping Flash
Pseudoregalia
Boku no Natsuyasumi 2: Umi no Bouken Hen
Links Awakening
Katamari Damacy
Earthbound
Among Others. Subject to Change.
Is it considered gauche to open with a collection pic?
Let me know.
The best console of all time is the PS2, considering the PS1 library is also functionally part of the same software library. There is a special feeling finding a new game that works for exactly you in the PS1/PS2 catalogue. I'm always hoping to find more for that system. Truly special. If you have a favorite game from these systems, please let me know. I love thinking about the Playstation.
One suggestion I would give to any player of any predilection would be this. Take physical notes, with a notepad style suited to you, and a writing utensil. If in need of something to write with, I'd suggest a Pentel SideFX [PD255] Mechanical Pencil, in either their 0.5 or 0.7 lead sizes, based on your preference. Notes help me massively in getting through games, and also somehow solidifies my memories in them longer. I started doing this about 2 years ago or so, and it has transformed the way that I play.
Albums I like a lot right now:
Taeko Ohnuki - Sunshower
Kahimi Karie - Trapeziste
Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
pinkpantheress - Fancy That
The Doopees - Doopee Time
Towa Tei - Last Century Modern
I have been making monthly playlists on spotify for 7 years. I don't want to promote them, most of them are made more for me than other people. Plus I think overlistening to playlists is making people listen to less full albums. You need to be listening to whole albums. That being said, if you find them, feel free to interpret their sequencing and worldbuilding, and let me know what you think. If you want to find them, I'd suggest you click on stuff until you find them.
Unrelated, but I'm currently reading Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller. Pretty good stuff.
Here is a link to my Game Tracker, a spreadsheet I use to catalog my play history/collection. Feel free to stick your nose in my business.
End of post. Thank you for having me.
//
I've had my account for a while. I won't even act like I was lurking, I've just been downloading copious amounts of data off the site and filling my hard drive. Making sure she's well fed. Might as well blow the dust off and spin my wheel.
I turned 30 this year. I received my first real video game console when I was 13. A Nintendo 64, pawned off on me and my brother by friends' parents. They considered a household with two Video Game Consoles, a Wii and an N64 to be a massive moral failing. Before this, the always-offline PC of my family was my only access to funtime software. Bio Menace, Duke Nukem, a few other oddities. Always dreaming for access to the handhelds and consoles of dreams. A few months later after getting the N64, my brother and I were blessed with another gift. My first real video game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Off to the Races. Hours of my life turned to months, to obsessive years. I bought a PS1 because I liked my first Final Fantasy (VII) too much to watch it run terribly thru ePSXe on my Mom's computer. By the time I carried a New 3DS XL, and a PSP, and a DS Lite in my backpack every day to sophomore year, I thought I knew all there was to know about these toys of mine. I hadn't even played ICO yet. Over a decade later of obsessive years, and now I wish I understood what I thought I did then. Buried in plastic, wires, engines, concept arts, staff names, terminology, disambiguated nostalgia. An avalanche of titles and things I wish I could experience fully some day. A hoarder-esque pile of newspapers with my obituary written on every one, stacked to the ceiling.
At some point, you realize that you will never love or touch everything you ever hoped you could. It's an awful sensation, that knowledge gives you. However, in my case, I decide to push on. I was shown very early in life that there is a finite end to all this, and running from that makes no sense. All I will allow myself to do is either stand still to appreciate what's around me, or move down my path.
Since I got into gaming so late in my life, and so late into it's life, I don't feel like I belong to or connect to any particular era. I, in 2025, enjoy Devil World on my Sharp Twin Famicom the same way I enjoy Donkey Kong Bananza on my Switch 2 the same way I enjoy Baroque on my Sega Saturn through my Saroo. They feel different, they taste different, but they occupy the same chamber of my heart.
Do you really want to get to know me?
Games I like a lot right now:
Final Fantasy X
Community Pom
Suzuki Bakuhatsu
Neon White
Metal Gear Solid 2
OFF
Dead Rising
The House in Fata Morgana
Donkey Kong Bananza
No More Heroes
Jumping Flash
Pseudoregalia
Boku no Natsuyasumi 2: Umi no Bouken Hen
Links Awakening
Katamari Damacy
Earthbound
Among Others. Subject to Change.
Is it considered gauche to open with a collection pic?
Let me know.
The best console of all time is the PS2, considering the PS1 library is also functionally part of the same software library. There is a special feeling finding a new game that works for exactly you in the PS1/PS2 catalogue. I'm always hoping to find more for that system. Truly special. If you have a favorite game from these systems, please let me know. I love thinking about the Playstation.
One suggestion I would give to any player of any predilection would be this. Take physical notes, with a notepad style suited to you, and a writing utensil. If in need of something to write with, I'd suggest a Pentel SideFX [PD255] Mechanical Pencil, in either their 0.5 or 0.7 lead sizes, based on your preference. Notes help me massively in getting through games, and also somehow solidifies my memories in them longer. I started doing this about 2 years ago or so, and it has transformed the way that I play.
Albums I like a lot right now:
Taeko Ohnuki - Sunshower
Kahimi Karie - Trapeziste
Clipse - Let God Sort Em Out
pinkpantheress - Fancy That
The Doopees - Doopee Time
Towa Tei - Last Century Modern
I have been making monthly playlists on spotify for 7 years. I don't want to promote them, most of them are made more for me than other people. Plus I think overlistening to playlists is making people listen to less full albums. You need to be listening to whole albums. That being said, if you find them, feel free to interpret their sequencing and worldbuilding, and let me know what you think. If you want to find them, I'd suggest you click on stuff until you find them.
Unrelated, but I'm currently reading Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller. Pretty good stuff.
Here is a link to my Game Tracker, a spreadsheet I use to catalog my play history/collection. Feel free to stick your nose in my business.
End of post. Thank you for having me.
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Good to know you were an old' time user that decided to join the forum discussion! I'm around your age, also starting with a Nintendo console for my first system (NES). Fascinating what your household beliefs were on owning more than two systems. Sweet video game variation! I also appreciate many different types of games from across the genre board.
