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Today’s “retro” game store visit was another success.

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— Splatterhouse 2 (GEN)\n— War of the Gems (SNES)\n— Bushido Blade 2 (PSone)\n— WCW Mayhem (N64 — SEALED!)

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Am I going to stop by my local “retro” video game store in my Star Trek: TNG uniform after work? Hell yeah, I am. I will be 100% less serious than I was when I took this photo before 8am this morning.

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@peteskerritt.com Each of these three parties bears blame for this. Big Tech knows what the damage is, but doesn’t care. Governments are in the pockets of Big Tech and turn blind eyes. Parents throw their hands up and claim that they can’t do anything (which is an absolute lie).

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Meanwhile, it only gets worse.

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@peteskerritt.com That same mall that once had mini golf and laser tag, well before any of those, had THREE arcades inside– two massive ones and a smaller room (think what the rooms in Game Room for X360/PC looked like).

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It was the Golden Age, and man… it was freaking cool.

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@peteskerritt.com The other problem is “Not my kid”.

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“MY KID is mature enough to not be distracted by those things.”

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“MY KID knows enough to not use the phone in class.”

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“MY KID shouldn’t have to go without because others can’t follow directions.”

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Parent-driven decisions to not comply with school rules hurts.

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@peteskerritt.com These devices need to be made so that kids really don’t want to use them unless there is an actual emergency and so that they won’t be distractions (i.e. sneaking them out in class, leaving class to access the device).

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Cutting out things like cameras, data/web, social media, etc. would help.

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@peteskerritt.com There’s also an argument to be made for restricting sales and use of smartphones to adults, but that’s a conversation that nobody wants to have… so we instead need to come up with alternatives.

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Parents want 100% access to their kids. Smartphones are distractions. Compromises are needed.

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@peteskerritt.com Shoot, this could be positioned as a launch title. Given that it’s probably still pretty early in development– because modern AAA video game dev takes many, many years– I could see that as a possibility. Would MS keep it (time) exclusive, though? That’s a coin flip.

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@peteskerritt.com Try some accountability. Some introspection. Sometimes losses or non-preferable outcomes are your own fault. YOU fucked up. It happens. It’s far easier to blame someone/everyone else than to look in the fucking mirror. Cowards blame others. Leaders accept responsibility.

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@peteskerritt.com Nobody wins all the time. Learn to lose, like (what used to be) a mature adult does. Constantly jumping to “they cheated”, “it’s rigged”, “it was stolen”, etc. just makes you look weak– juvenile, even.

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Sadly, there’s hundreds of millions of weak-minded people who eat this shit up.

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@peteskerritt.com So long as BlueSky stays free and Meta’s weird subscription model doesn’t screw up Threads too badly, very few people are going to willingly pay to be part of a social media platform with a small fraction of the potential audience– even if subs are seemingly needed for the platform to survive.

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@peteskerritt.com In my view, you’ve got to build value as a social media platform before you start demanding money for it. Tweet struggled out of the gate, between going down early and its faulty “truth detector” gimmick, and just isn’t at the level to earn paid subs yet.

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Monday mail call!

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The sealed Vegas Stakes for Super NES is probably the most notable of this quartet, though it’s far from uncommon. Tomb Raider II Greatest Hits is a variant I needed, and Street Sk8er 2 is a better-condition upgrade.

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Thinking Out Loud: Pressing Reset on Series X \"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Back in the Day: Street Fighter II \"\"\"\"\"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Love these Console Heroes dioramas. This is my second (to go with a Twisted Metal 2 one I got a few months ago).

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@peteskerritt.com Arcade games are what I grew up on. The chases for high scores and skill improvement from token to token fueled me. Yeah, the games were designed to eat tokens or quarters, but I got (and still get) intense satisfaction from stretching credits from less than a minute to multiple minutes or longer.

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@peteskerritt.com As it always is on social media, people HAVE to shit on things. There’s a lot of stuff I look past. But, man, the need for hot takes on this topic, one that’s very close to me… I’m not looking past that.

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@peteskerritt.com …and then this one:

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@peteskerritt.com Which led me to think about this…

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@peteskerritt.com Gen7 hardware is “only” ~20 years old. There’s a TON of games that sat unwanted for years up to now, and the market is only now starting to warm. It’s still HD in many cases, though an obvious downgrade from modern visuals and often with framerate hits. But the games are still mostly very playable.

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@peteskerritt.com It’s a good “problem” to have, but I’m at the point some days where I take more time deciding what to play than playing– and, sometimes, I don’t play at all & just watch YouTube instead.

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“Retro” collecting is a little different, but even there, even with a full room to store it all, I’m tight.

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@peteskerritt.com My library of games is, frankly, insane. Between “retro” and more modern stuff, physical and digital, I’ve got 4,000 games to choose from. I don’t have the time, realistically, to play them all. I fall for the “shiny new thing” for more modern stuff because it’s “on sale”.

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I need to be better.

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@peteskerritt.com Not yet. On my list, though.

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Took a ride after a tough work day to the local video game store and found some good-SNES inside.

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@peteskerritt.com Will I open the Deluxe Edition? Maybe, at some point. As with most of the double dips, Series X is my main because I’m one of those fans of Achievements that people hate.

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I do love the fact that more and more original PlayStation games have been getting re-releases this way.

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@peteskerritt.com So many video game players grew up knowing nothing but open-world games, so for “Old Man Linear” to gripe about things definitely shows my age. I get that. I started playing & enjoying video games that were linear and yet replayable, from arcades to Commodore to the 8/16-bit eras.

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@peteskerritt.com In fact, getting past the “no more new things” when the industry implodes will allow for interesting discussions about games people overlooked or missed out on. These discussions could go on for decades.

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There will be those who see the “no more new things” and walk away. That’s their loss.

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@peteskerritt.com We’ve been conditioned to want the new things, to ignore the decades of things that came before and still exist to play. It’s not permanent conditioning. You can break free. You can be able to see the vast mountains of treasures waiting to be explored.

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No more new things isn’t the end.

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@peteskerritt.com Video games won’t die when the industry implodes. There are more video games that exist between their start and now than you could ever play in your lifetime. Go explore those. You’ll be okay with not-4K visuals and not-120 FPS animation. You’ll adapt.

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It’ll be a relief when it eventually happens.

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@peteskerritt.com I’m telling you— let this industry die. The whole thing. Let it burn to ashes. Let us hear the sob stories about how players didn’t buy enough, or how maybe if game prices increased with inflation things would be different.

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It’s a Titanic moment. The unsinkable ship that struck an iceberg.

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@peteskerritt.com Blow it all up. Let it burn. It will be painful, no doubt, but pain is required in this case. The only— I emphasize ONLY— way console video gaming gets fixed is for the whole industry to collapse & chase out all of the opportunists. Try rebuilding in 2035 with better perspective (and less AI maybe).

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SEMANTICS ALERT: The “best games” and “your favorite games” are not the same thing or interchangeable. “Best” has more of an objective connotation, where you need solid and measurable criteria to pit one versus many. “Favorite” can be pretty much anything and it can be subjective.

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My childhood in particular was really rough at times, but I will always miss certain facets of that time in my life… like that trip home after school, which sometimes meant an arcade stop or other times meant cartoons after a long day.

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The timing of having so many thoughts on the Nintendo Wii and the console’s anniversary being 6 weeks away is a bit annoying. There’s a lot I want to say, but it’s probably better to wait and put it all into a written piece for that time.

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I’ve been thinking a lot– maybe more than I should– lately about the Atari VCS/2600. A lot about Activision games, like Megamania, Pitfall!, and River Raid… and about other third-party stuff. It’s the combination on simple play controls and high-score chasing I miss the most.

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Because nobody asked: My tier list for Ace Combat games that I’ve played.

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I haven’t finished Ace Combat 8 yet, but unless something drastic changes my mind late, I can’t see it moving out of B tier. Still good, but not great based on how it hit me.

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Collector’s Log: Playing Catch-Up \"\"\"\"\"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Anniversary Anecdotes: Nintendo 64 \"\"\"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Becoming an adult as a video game fan is great in that you can afford to buy more games instead of waiting for gifts, but time spent at work is needed to afford them… and then, as you age further, lower energy becomes a factor. Sure, I want to play after work, but I am BEAT.

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Anniversary Anecdotes: Super Nintendo Entertainment System \"\"\"\"\"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Original PlayStation / PS1 one-offs that I would’ve liked sequels to (on the same console):

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— Philosoma\n— Einhänder\n— Grind Session\n— Vagrant Story\n— Big Air\n— Demolition Racer

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I picked up a couple of Super Nintendo shirts to add to my wardrobe, upping the total to four. Genesis shirts are needed, but I haven’t found a lot that I like (yet).

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I stopped at my usual spot for old video games today, and found some original PlayStation games/variants that I didn’t have yet… so… YOINK!

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Anniversary Anecdotes: SEGA Genesis \"\"\"\"\"\" : peteskerritt.com

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Sony’s Gamer Advisory Panel notebook, Namco’s JogCon, and Sony’s first Dual (don’t call it Shock!) Analog controller… oh, and some PlayStation controller sticky notes, because why not?

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I lucked into one of these dioramas. It’s fun to put together, though not really worth taking apart and folding up to see the game case artwork.

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When my family moved to Norwich, CT in late 1980, there was a duckpin bowling alley not far from where we were living. There were arcade games inside, including Berzerk and the Gorgar pinball machine– both of which had speech, which blew my 8 year-old mind.

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Acknowledge him! Temu Roman Reigns is here, brought to you by CoboRap, in theaters on Friday… by Ree, the cologne for angry dudes on social media… and by the Mosy PayStation 6: No Physical, No Problem.

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Big Light. Inny. Good… moning? Gotta love these V’Ball ads.

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