Tag: retro

  • Systems Have I Loved: Super Nintendo

    Ah, the SNES. Stately in thy countenance, worldly in thy repertoire. I definitely consider the SNES to be one of the finest gaming systems ever created. System: I must’ve traded in my Genesis for the Super Nintendo, because I can’t remember owning the Genesis after I got the Super Nintendo. Clearly this was the right…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Sega Genesis

    At some point in my life (around 1992 or 1993), I garnered enough cash to pick up the Sega Genesis. System: By the time I got it, it was the late model Genny, or as it’s known, the “sexy Genesis.” I still don’t know why I would go for the Genesis over the Super Nintendo,…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Nintendo Entertainment System

    Yes, I was a child in the 80s. Guess what? I had a NES. System: We lived just outside a much nicer neighborhood, where it seemed like every kid in existence had a NES. My parents, wisely, deemed that we were allowed video games, but they would never fund the purchase of a system or…

  • Systems Have I Loved: Commodore 64

    In honor of the imminent arrival of my Nintendo DS Lite, I decided to do a series of posts on the ol’ blog where I go through my history with video game systems, from the first up to the DS itself. Without any further ado, let us begin a journey through the recent past.