My friend Matt has an awesome new post up on Nitrobeard about hanging on to game systems. The whole article is worth a read, whether it’s a scarily accurate peek into your own rationale or insights into why your gamer boyfriend won’t trash hardware that’s been collecting dust for years, but this one line is brilliant:
The internet has made it harder to tell how old a person is – but a quick and easy way to figure it out is to ask which console is their all-time favorite. Whatever that console is, that’s when that person was roughly 13-15 years old.
Via Nitrobeard – Latest Musings – Why Gamers Horde – Matt Pierce
That should make mine the Original NES… and yes, I’m quite good at Mario. But I have a little more love in my heard for the PS2 we bought with our wedding money.