memories of being poor walking the toy/game aisle

The sad thing is so many used retro games cost more than they did at original retail. So this is an ongoing feel.

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>>4235984
>wealthy now
>dont know what to spend my money on
>spending my money is just a way to escape my reality
>you dont even need to spend money but you still do
>need to get more money to escape reality more

>>4235984
>being poor
I played the shit out of store kiosks whenever I went to a big box store. Would play so long my neck would hurt from staring up. I remember playing a Vitual Boy kiosk once and a girl kept bothering me for a turn. Kept blowing her off until she brought her mom over to scare me. It worked ;_;

I don't have any of these memories but I'm pretty obsessed with The Beach Boys (all I listen to really). So good OP pic, OP

Not necessarily poor memories, but memories of being disappointed/alienated by people in this world at a young age:

>be like 14 or 15, turbo autism Nintendo fanboy, back when the Nintendo forums were still up
>the Nintendo DS Lite XL had just come out
>a family is looking at the XL through the case
>going on about how "It's bigger!"
>I am forced to watch them purchase a Lite XL because "It's bigger!"
>Nintendo apealing to THIS demographic, now?
>hate people for not understanding that an oversized portable is objectively stupid
>Nintendo forums shut down by Nintendo of America soon after
>Hate Nintendo ever since

>>4235991
Except that what used to be a poor child is now a grown adult. If he learned anything about working hard and not wasting money, splurging on some toys he wanted as s child would be insignificant.

>>4237029
I only buy the xl versions, they look far far better to me. My mother had a regular 3ds for a long time because the xl wasn't out and I eventually got her the larger one after she fawned over mine every time she saw it.

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I grew up in the arcades, so it's not like my childhood was deprived of video games. But, we were too poor for a home consoles. I didn't buy my first home console until I was 17 (NES), and PS2 was coming out by that time.

I remember up to that point, I would collect video game magazines and Toys R Us holiday ads showcasing consoles and newly released video games, so in a way I experienced all of it vicariously.

One thing I remember doing is drawing NES ad Game Boy a lot, from different angles. Weird, now that I think about it.

>>4237029

Interesting, I feel eerily similar. I rarely travel with my XL for that same reason, I only ever really play it at home before bedtime.

Extra poor guy here.
I had a famiclone so all I played was shitty bootlegs.
I had very few games borrowed the rest,kids were stealing my shit so I didnt had friends.
Grew up still poor,never learned how to make money.

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>>4235992

Shit, man, I'm at a point where I ain't rich, but can afford to spend somewhat frivolously. I kind of always knew that my problem stemmed from social isolation, even when I was very young, and that having more money wouldn't fix that.

Honest advice: talk to someone, a professional. It's what I'm doing and it's helping.

How's this related to the vidya? I am obsessed with playing old consoles as an adult to catch up o what I see as missing out on an important cultural milestone for the youth of my generation. Again, the social isolation is there because I missed out on a lot of what it means to have been young in a capitalist first world society during the 80s and 90s. I guess it could be excused if I was doing something more productive like learning the cello, but i was just plain homeless.