So about a year ago I began to rebuild my childhood. Unfortunately, soon after I purchased Super Metroid my laptop died and I had sort of not been saving much money ending up spending pretty much all that I had on a new computer. This new computer and a general resurgence in my own interest in my PS3 kept me from much pursuing my old collection. However, recently three factors combined to get me to continue pursuing my past.


1. I started listening to RetroforceGo. My summer job is a pretty basic landscaping yard work deal which means that I'm outside every day just doing manual labor. I tried silence and got bored immediately, I tried music and got bored after a slightly longer period, but eventually I moved onto podcasts and knew I had struck gold upon hearing the first "aaannd welcome." While there are many memories discussed that I don't share with the hosts because I'm younger, their SNES recollections constantly brought me back.to my own childhood.





2. I was spending a lot of time at my grandparents house because my grandpa has brain cancer. Most of my earliest memories involve playing the SNES at their house, so I inevitably begin to reminisce about the good old days whenever I spend time with them.


3. Goodwill apparently has an online auction site. This sort of ties into RetroforceGo again in that Dyson made me wish that I had ever found anything worth having in a goodwill, since to date I have found nothing. Either way, the discovery of another online auction site always excites me, and I ended up making some purchases. In the end I picked up 37 SNES games, a system, controller, and a fighting stick. Now for a few pics.









I'm happy to have the beginnings of a collection again even though it doesn't match what I had in the past (selling FFIII(6) and Chrono Trigger to Gamestop in order to buy Gamecube games was a huge mistake). I probably won't finish every game I have anyways. Although one of the games I got was Battletoads and I plan on beating that fucker even if it has only destroyed myself and my self esteem every time we've crossed paths in the past.

Edit
Figured I'd throw in a few highlights of the collection since the pic sort of sucks. Mega Man X, All the DKC games, NBA Jam, Battletoads, Super Mario Allstars, Street Fighter II Turbo, Mortal Kombat II, Super Punch Out, Super Gameboy.