I still played my Famicom, which included many original Japanese games, eg "Rockman" instead of "Mega Man". The Famicom I had was the original one with the joypads hardwired into the back. It died and was replaced with an [illegal?] Chinese import. I should still somewhere have my 1987ish Rockman cart and some others. Just talking about makes me miss those days: Put cartridge into machine, power on, play. There was none of the Installation & Setup crap like today. That's why I moved away from consoles. Because a modern console is essentially a crippled-PC. Also, I missed cartridges because that were tougher than CDs and easier to clean... *sigh*
Well, my PS1 is still in working shape although I replaced the laser unit by swapping it with one I bought for parts but the mainboard has been used since 1999ish. Control is new as they start becoming stuffed and require fiddling to make them work. I have three controls actually: Original one (crappy but ideal for Tekken 3, transparent ds one a friend bought me, a green ds one that came with the other machine (it's from the "psone" line, Sony's last model of PS1). My green one is only used by me. Not one individual one this planet has ever or will ever touch it because I've meticulously cared for it and I use it extra gently. Most of my stuff in storage now so I haven't played since about 3+ years back but, until emulators can get PS1 perfect, I've no choice (I believe development has stopped which is sad as there are many emu short-comings, for example the display inconsistencies like the incorrectly read colour values in FF7 especially. Soun is also not perfect. Still, at least I can play a CD. There was a time when most PS CDs didn't work (I believe that was because Sony put garbage in the subchannels or something). Stupid Sony).
"You realise you're not nearly as funny as you think you are," said Onii-chan.
"I know that, which means I must be as funny as I think I am; in a paradoxical sort of way," I replied.
