

Though you can't tell to look at this post (or, ahem, my wife's question about all the Steam Winter Sale charges on our latest credit card bill), I'd have to posit that 2018 was the year I lost momentum collecting games (a lot of this simply has to do with the rhythms of the secondhand market in response to the ebb and flow of new generations of hardware hitting stores), and instead started inadvertently accumulating consoles! With the exception of the final week the PlayStation 2 was in stores I never owned a bought-new video game machine - instead, I acquire them when my friends are done with them. I'm a big fan of the Commodore 64 t-shirt! It's helpful to have a games collector on your gift list because you are never in the "what to get for the man who has everything" scenario: if his Atari 2600 collection is 100%, get him Colecovision carts! And when all else fails, when you can't find any more games for cheap, load the stocking up with game swag! Here you see a nice mix of games, a console, accessories and. February is a fine time to discuss Christmas matters, now who wants to join me in a rousing round of carols? ( both of my kids shoot their hands up.) My starting it was the biggest gift in this field! 8) The big challenge for me is getting the holiday loot written up before the holiday itself is but a hazy, distant memory - now a month and a week hence. It's another specimen of that unpopular genre of " my Christmas haul" reports (what, no Christmas 2014 report? Ohhh, I see - transitioning over to this blog from the last was a New Year's 2015 resolution. On that cheerful note, if I only make one post a year, it should be the one that comes gift-wrapped with a bow on top.


Here I am, back again, stubbornly refusing to let this blog die, yet not allowing it the conditions needed to live and thrive.
