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Oh heck yea! Achievements and leaderboards! Coolness!

I love buying the old 360 games and trying all sorts of genre's I don't normally play. Thing is, I'm finding less and less time to keep up with the new stuff, so I'm trying to resist the retro urge right now.

Man, you just read my mind.

The NeoGeo games look really cool and I want one.

My buddy has the Game Gear and it's sequel, the Nomad. It's kinda cool that you can play Master Systems games, with an adapter, on the Game Gear and Genesis games on the Nomad, without an adapter, but there wasn't much I really wanted to play that was made for either of those systems. Still, who doesn't want to play Shining in the Darkness on the crapper?

I used to do the buy 2-get-1 free sales all the time. Now that I've put my game spending into my budget, I've tended to save up for new titles and only buy very specific used ones. No more impulse buying for me I'm afraid.

Me too. I think one time I traded in almost my entire collection. I bought a lot of that stuff back again, so I try to resist the urge now.

Right on. I agree with your original comment, I was just adding to it and my blog by mentioning the changes that have happened.

Man, would I love to see Okami on Atari 2600. Sure it wouldn't be anything like the original, but it would be interesting to see how that might look and play. Kinda like that Halo game for Atari 2600 someone did recently. You can play it in a browser now here: http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/

I love looking at game collections. That's kind of a given for enthusiasts like us. More please.

Thanks. It's not really true that things haven't changed except for the means of delivery. Computers have clearly enabled games to be much more engaging and created so many more gameplay elements that never existed before. I just wanted to show the similarities in order to make it fun to think about gaming's roots.

Man, I can't get over the fact that I instantly thought of  Barnstorm for Atari 2600 when I watched that Blue Max trailer.