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:
- Amiga 1000
- Amiga 1200
- Amiga 3000
- Amiga 500
- Amiga 600
- Atari 1040ST
- Atari 1200
- Atari 130XE
- Atari 2600
- Atari 5200
- Atari 600XL
- Atari 65XE
- Atari 7800
- Atari 800
- Atari 800XL
- Atari Jaguar
- Atari XEGS
- Bally/Astrocade
- ColecoVision Adam
- ColecoVision
- Commodore 128
- Commodore 16
- Commodore 64
- Commodore Plus/4
- Commodore SX64
- Commodore VIC-20
- Intellivision II
- Intellivision
- Megaboy (128 Atari 2600 games)
- Microvision
- NEC Turbo Duo
- NEC TurboGrafx 16
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo Game Boy
- Nintendo: Super Nintendo
- Odyssey 1
- Odyssey 2
- Sega 32X
- Sega Genesis
- Sega Master System 2
- Sony PlayStation
- 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