When Too Much Isn't Enough

by Adam Trionfo

(May 1998)

How is it that I have games I can't play? How can I possibly own cartridges that will not fit into any system I have? Someday, I will be able to play the weird games that don't belong to any of the consoles or computers I own. For now, I will have to settle on playing the games for the systems I own, which are many:

  1. Amiga 1000
  2. Amiga 1200
  3. Amiga 3000
  4. Amiga 500
  5. Amiga 600
  6. Atari 1040ST
  7. Atari 1200
  8. Atari 130XE
  9. Atari 2600
  10. Atari 5200
  11. Atari 600XL
  12. Atari 65XE
  13. Atari 7800
  14. Atari 800
  15. Atari 800XL
  16. Atari Jaguar
  17. Atari XEGS
  18. Bally/Astrocade
  19. ColecoVision Adam
  20. ColecoVision
  21. Commodore 128
  22. Commodore 16
  23. Commodore 64
  24. Commodore Plus/4
  25. Commodore SX64
  26. Commodore VIC-20
  27. Intellivision II
  28. Intellivision
  29. Megaboy (128 Atari 2600 games)
  30. Microvision
  31. NEC Turbo Duo
  32. NEC TurboGrafx 16
  33. Nintendo 64
  34. Nintendo Entertainment System
  35. Nintendo Game Boy
  36. Nintendo: Super Nintendo
  37. Odyssey 1
  38. Odyssey 2
  39. Sega 32X
  40. Sega Genesis
  41. Sega Master System 2
  42. Sony PlayStation
  43. Vectrex

Now, with all of these systems, it sounds as though I'm bragging a bit. I'm not. I have too many systems to play, and I can never decide which I should be using. Why own so much stuff? I say that it's time to thin out, and concentrate on just a few systems.


I did end up thinning my systems out. I now only own a fraction of the game systems that I had when I wrote this article -- and I enjoy the systems that I now own much more. Maybe if you concentrate on just a few systems (one of my choices was the obscure Bally/Astrocade), then you too can find renewed interest in the hobby.

      -- Adam Trionfo, March 13, 2012