Mini Entry: Consoles

For the longest time I was super bummed out when my gamecube wouldn't read my disks anymore. It would take like, five minutes at first to read the disk. Then ten, then around a half hour, and soon enough it would just be perpetually trying to read the disk. 

But, when I was visiting one of my favourite secondhand videogame stores, the owner was offering a console repair service! It's super lucky to have a service like this where I live, since our city isn't big enough for small shops like these to pop up everywhere. Turns out all it needed was a cleaning and new capacitors! 

Plus, this same place also offers to clean up disks for a small fee, too! They bought one of those professional disk cleaning machines, and it does such an awesome job doing up my old CD's. That place has to be the best spot to get and maintain old consoles/games :) It's good to know that there's a place I can bring my old consoles to when they start to show their age. 

I've planned before on keeping a huge collection of consoles when I was younger, but now I don't think I need every single one. Especially the newer ones: they can go kick rocks. Besides I like my current set up just fine. The only one I'd like to get my hands on is a PS3, because the games for that console weren't made backwards compatible on the PS4. I'm not in a hurry to get it, since there isn't any games off the top of my head that I'd like to play on it, other than metal gear rising: revengence. But that game also came out on the 360, so even then my only reason for buying a PS3 would be nostalgia. 

I dunno, I'm happy with the spread I have now. It feels right :) 

And yeah, this entry was inspired when I was playing Twilight Princess on my gamecube today. 

That's all on my mind,

pacdevil