What's the earliest you've ever abandoned a new system?
Ok, this question works like this. You buy a new system, brand new, with all the excitement and anticipation that goes with it. But later on down the line, you realize that it just isn't the system for you, and you dump it.
What is the shortest period of time that you have ever owned a system, that you originally had great hopes for?
For me, it was the Neo-Geo. I had a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis, and a collection of games and accessories for both systems, and I decided to sell all of this stuff to get a Neo-Geo, and one Neo-Geo game. I basically had to sacrifice everything for the Neo-Geo. I can't remember what the Neo-Geo was going for at the time. I think $499.99, or something like that. I know that the games were around $149.99. Well, I only owned that Neo-Geo for like 2 months, and then I decided to sell it, and go back to my Super Nintendo and Genesis. It wasn't so much that I didn't like the Neo-Geo, as it was the fact that the games just were too expensive, and instead of only having one or two really good games, I would rather have a much larger selection. It was an error in judgement, on my part. Not any fault of the Neo-Geo's
Besides the Neo-Geo, the PS2 is the next system that I had the least length of time. I didn't even have it, for one full year. I bought the PS2 on launch day, with the highest of expectations. I spent all night in the wind and rain in front of a Target store, to get it. Initially, I did like the PS2. But I later realized that I really didn't like it, I just forced myself to like it. With all I had invested in it, I had to like it. But it just seemed like the games that I got, where average at best, and that the system was dramatically underpowered, in comparison to how powerfull it was hyped up to be. I will also admit that I'm somewhat of a videophile, and that the PS2 is very dissapointing, in terms of the video signal that it outputs, considering the fact that this system came out in the year 2000. To me, all the games seemed colorless, with washed out color palletes. Everything seemed dark and dreary on the PS2. After having a Dreamcast, with everything being so bright and vibrant and colorfull, the PS2 was just a big dissapointment to me. I had a HDTV, and I had been playing my Dreamcast on my HDTV through the VGA box, and it was like a whole new world. While the PS2, was just a drab, dreary, washed out, colorless world. With tons of jaggies and shimmer everywhere. So I dumped it. About 9 or 10 months after staying up all night in the rain and wind in front of a Target store. I got rid of it, just at the time that Metal Gear and Grand Theft Auto 3 were coming out. I was looking forward to the XBOX and GameCube, so I didn't really care.
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. Second, it's just not economical to play games on new machines, not to mention, I just have more fun with the classics. I guess I'm just content with the systems I have right now, and being content is good. Less stress.
Originally Posted by bargora
