I was like 33 in 1989 and my first console was a Sega Genesis, then a SNES, TG16, NES, Neo Geo CD,etc. The addiction began! I prefer the cart based gaming. I like the simple two and four button gaming. It is just my taste in gaming. I spend about all my gaming time in retro games of the 8 bit and 16 bit era. I like the 2D cartoony hand drawn graphics. I like the high score survival shmup stuff. There is no nostalgia in my desire to play the retro. If I was to look back into my childhood for nostalgia, it would be pinball and pong. I just find the old games more fun than the offerings of present day gaming.

And I think that maybe when someone finds that they like the old stuff, it is hard for them to realize that it is sometimes preference, or their taste, in gaming that is the real issue. I am sure that there are some really good games out for the present generation of gaming. My problem is, nothing has really caught my attention like the old stuff. Nothing has ever grabbed me in the way the older systems have, making me excited enough to say, Got to have that system.

My excitement is still running across an old cart that I don't have in a flea market. Gotta have that game!