Although I would probably not consider myself to be a "gamer," I am very interested in video games as a technology and have greatly come to appreciate video games which are fun games or toys removed from the specificity of being "video". I am not very good at most actiony video games, but I appreciate and am interested in the technology, ideas and concepts, and art present in many video and computer games. When I was going to garage sales and flea markets every weekend when I was in middle and high school I amassed a large collection of a variety of consoles and games. Eventually I found a few local game stores and got into importing Japanese games and consoles and also got into collecting old computers.
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My consoles |
various consoles and
peripherals I own |
| My Game Boys | my collection of different Game Boy variants and versions |
| Other handhelds | WonderSwan, Neo Geo, and other handheld games |
| My games | some of the games I have and find interesting for one reason or another |
I am very interested in video games as an art form but also as pieces of hardware and historical artifacts. Some older game systems are already increasingly becoming unreliable and in the future more and more consoles will begin to break down over time and I feel very fortunate to live during the period of time where, for the most part, they continue to function