20th September 2003, 2:09 PM
Went to some convention for retro games up to now today. Not much of a convention, in fact just one room, but it was fun nonetheless. Never thought I'd see someone who actually owned a CD-i and all 3 Zelda games for it, but there they were. They gave one of my friends who showed up a poster for Wand of Gamelon, just GAVE. Sure, the games suck and all (and now I know it as a scientific fact :D), but just having them for my collection would have been nice.
On one side of the room was a huge LAN setup. People only bothered playing the games that didn't need the disk though, so no one played Warcraft 3. Also, I couldn't get anyone except one of my friends to join me in a Battlefield game, and that game quickly becomes boring with just two people.
Aside from that, lots of various systems I never thought I'd see. Colecovision, Jaguar, and all manner of Atari systems. Many old NES games for sale in mint condition. Nice little thing to visit, but in the end I didn't see anything I wanted to buy, except stuff the person was only showing off and wasn't for sale (like said CD-i games).
On one side of the room was a huge LAN setup. People only bothered playing the games that didn't need the disk though, so no one played Warcraft 3. Also, I couldn't get anyone except one of my friends to join me in a Battlefield game, and that game quickly becomes boring with just two people.
Aside from that, lots of various systems I never thought I'd see. Colecovision, Jaguar, and all manner of Atari systems. Many old NES games for sale in mint condition. Nice little thing to visit, but in the end I didn't see anything I wanted to buy, except stuff the person was only showing off and wasn't for sale (like said CD-i games).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)