The collecturd sounds like a collecturd...always making up excuses for not playing their games, always making it sound like it's ok to own games for no purpose other than taking up space. Their excuses always revolve around the live and let live...
...seems weak to me, so weak in fact that I find it irritating when people say I'm a gamer or a collector...I mean we all have been there at some point in our lives, we get into something hard and we just wanna go all out. I did with MVS when I parted with my AES setup, I wanted to have all the games I parted with, all the games I traded, all the games I wanted to have that I never got, then along the way I lost my sense of purpose and got some MVS games with questionable purpose, I could make you a list, I always look at those games with disdain and as a strong reminder never to fuck up again.
The difference between you (collecturd) and I is that I learned my lesson, as I've gotten into many other systems and arcade hardware, I've been very selective, I only have games that I know I want to play, some games I want to play more than others of course but alas I do play my games. Once I wanted to get into RPGs, got some titles and after a while I decided it was a mistake, so I cleaned my stash from all games that are just lame and sold all them RPGs and some other console games that were just not my thing. I've become better at getting current video games thanks to youtube and research, I just don't go blind and buy just because.
The amount of time we dedicate to gaming is becoming more and more precious 'cause is so scarce, as we get older we have more responsibilities and even more hobbies, it's just hard to keep up with it all, so I chose to have nothing but the very best, in other words, a game that appeals to me entirely, maximize on what you love as opposed to maximizing your library.
Now the main thing to me is that if I get a game is because at some point in time I decided to play this game to my highest potential, in some I can be successful, in others not so much but the effort is always there. To me that's where the "fun" is and I feel that makes getting a game worth while even if you don't get to play it as much as you'd like to. I prolly spend way too much time playing over and over the same old games, too much Ninja Gaiden...lol, right now I'm working on a Speed Run for NG2004 no updates. I know it's crazy, I've prolly have beaten that game a gazillion times but I'm happy doing it again and again knowing that I'm not even scratching the surface, that there's room for improvement, that my skill has room to grow.
I'm the same way with SF and some fighting games in general, wish I was a good dedicated shmuper but I'm trying, it's just taking me longer than I'd like to but hey I always suck hard when I start playing something for keeps. It's a long arduous road, it always has been this way for me, rarely do I find a game that just "clicks" and I'm awesome right away, it just takes time, well anyway, drifting off...yeah, I find it funny that people have found another use for a video game other than playing it...
...I guess that's what I like about shock boxes, I love Shinkiro's art, I think everyone does...when I learned about the neo I was just a kid playing at the arcade, I never got to see any art for Neo until later when I got the AES and got Fatal Fury Special and KOF94, that was it (samsho I cover just didn't really captured that shinkiro signature character) just hooked, so anyway, always loved that art. I couldn't just part with the AES and have that art not being part of my life anymore, thank god for Big Bear, he's the man that made it all possible for a bunch of us to edit that art and recreate it as we saw it best. Making inserts and reproducing SNK art for arcades or games was always a great feeling.
So much more to say about the hobby, it just doesn't end...but for some of you it's just looking at a spine...collecturds, you're a disease, you've always have been, not just for video games but for everything in general, just take the joy out of everything, sports, comics, music, you name it!