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It's been a while since I've posted here, huh? Well today it's just dawned on me, looking at the games, VHS tapes and Laserdiscs I have that I've never actually even taken out of their box, and was wondering to myself "Why am I buying more? I already have plenty I've never watched!"
I've actually been playing a lot of 3DO lately, because I got a PVM monitor from a broadcasting organisation I volunteer for. It only supports composite through BMC, S-video and SDI. The only thing I have that can connect to any of those is the 3DO via S-video.
So that's what I've been doing.
I only have a handful of games for the 3DO, and I've actually beaten most of them. In fact there's only 1 I haven't, which was Foes of Ali.
For those unaware, Foes of Ali is a 3D boxing game released in 1995. The graphics must have been insane for the time (I sqaw must have, I wasn't even a year old when it came out!), however, is criticised for it's controls and general jankiness.
When I tried it, I couldn't even get a punch in, and put it down to unresponsive controls. I was told on a 3DO Discord server that I'm supposed to briefly hold it in for the punch to actually connect. So in the absense of anything else to play, I booted it up and tried it, and you know, I actually started to enjoy it.
If I has Foes of Ali as a kid (and if I was a kid old enough to even understand it), I'd have probably loved it for the graphics alone.
I found out it has a career mode, and one that isn't just endless randomly generated stuff. You actually fight through a dozen of Ali's best matches, and each has a voiced summary of the real fight beforehand, so it feels like you're going through his history.
I've been spending the last couple of weeks doing this, and as of writing them I'm a few fight until the end, and I'm glad I went through this. I've never actually sat down and played a game like this in a long long time.
It made me realise I've just become a typical collector. Nothing bad in of itself, in my opinion, but I spend all of this money getting these things, I really should play them, or watch them.
It also made me realise I waste most of my day just sitting on my computer, staring at Discord with a Twitch stream or Youtube video playing on the other monitor. I'm wasting my life away and I think it's time I get my money's worth out of all of the things I got over the years!
I got a few 3DO games since getting that PVM monitor, and each one I intend to also play through, and now that I have a composite to BNC adaptor, I intend to play through my N64 backlog, as well as Resident Evil: Code Veronica. (Because for some odd reason, that just won't work in VGA mode, even with the trick!)
I need a distraction from every day life, and the internet just doesn't cut it sometimes.
I guess I'm writing this also to all of the collectors like me out there. Maybe it's time to sit down and enjoy what you have, make time to play them like you used to as a kid.
