August 12, 2007

Old video games are fun to have around, PC or Console

It’s fun to keep around old computer games and old console games. Conversely it’s tempting to sell them if are able to get something decent in return. Some game store offer credit for trade in, which can actually have good value compared to selling a game straight up. It’s too easy to get rid of games after you’ve had your fun.

Don’t sell all your unplayed games

I find that it is fun to keep the best of the best games that you buy, until your console system dies or until your PC doesn’t run the game any more, for whatever reasons.

If you don’t play that PS2 game anymore, but you had a good time with it, keep it. Keep it, that is, if you still keep your PS2 around. You might get far enough down the road of your video gaming career that you can pick up that game once again and have fun playing through it again.

You will already know how the game plays, and know how to work around the things that particularly challenged your gameplay when you first played it. But there will be a certain amount of unfamiliarity with the game that will make it fun to play again.

How many times have you wished you learned about a particularly fun feature of a game earlier in your experience with the game?

• “I didn’t realize I could do that move”
• “Wow, that weapon is much more kill-tastic when you realize you have that secondary shot”
• “Dang, I didn’t realize I could make that type of modification to my car”

You generally won’t experience the uncomfortable feeling of not having a grasp on the controls, or not knowing how a confusing part of the games mechanics work if you’ve played it before.

Replay-ability in a game is sometimes a long-term effect. The game doesn’t become enjoyable until about a year from the point you last played it.

It can happen.

And then the game becomes so old that it’s fun to play for nostalgic kicks

How do you regard Combat for Atari? You’d probably have a hard time sitting and playing it, and actually having a grand old time. But, you’d probably also have fun giving it a run just for kicks. It’d be fun to realize that at one point you had fun flying of one edge of the screen and then behind a pixelated cloud.

Just imagine thinking about Dead Rising in that regard, disgusted by it’s graphics.

It might happen.

Either way, it was fun to keep it around

You had fun with the game 5 years ago, maybe it’s still fun. Break it out and play it.

I recently played a round of Return Fire for PS1, that game is fun. I liked it just as much now as I did when it first came out. That must have been almost 10 years ago now.

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